Originally Posted by
boss315
Have been booking a TATL trip for late April....during the day the Polaris fares hover in the $2500 range, EWR-LHR...but at 7 p.m each night for the past two nights (and last week), they go up by $800. I totally understand how prices fluctuate these days, but this seems very odd...and the plane seem pretty empty up front.
Englighten me!
TOo many factors go into airline pricing...
Eg, 7pm night flight allows someone to work most of NYC day, and then arrive London to work the next day (plus skipping a hotel night).
If you want to know why the pricing is different under the covers, it could be a combination of different fare buckets available (the cheap bucket available for daytime but not nighttime) or fare rules (XYZ fare rules valid only for UA123 daytime flight). Both available if you use United expert mode