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Old Oct 25, 2022 | 1:56 pm
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Originally Posted by mb4wong
Thanks for this I've been flying in flex very freuqnet and was just curious to try to find out why the price differential has changed over the last 18 months. And I think you and YVR76 are probably right that its just that the lower buckets are just significantly cheaper due to competition from ULCCs. In my heart of hearts just hoped that the ULCCs would also bring down flex fares

Part of me wondering this was because I had been looking at this prices for a while (and perhaps my memory is faulty too!) and one day the basic and standard prices didn't seem to change while the flex fare went up by triple digits
If you look at the other flights that day, there's a number of flights with $289 Basic, $318 Standard and $419 Flex seats. Your 2000hr departure is the anomaly, with $137 Basic, $165 Standard or $419 Flex seats. So I agree with the hypothesis that it's to compete with ULCCs. The folks flying ULCCs likely won't even consider Flex.
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