Originally Posted by
Kacee
Not punitive, just revenue maximizing.
I see this so often, I have no doubt it is deliberate.
I mean it's probably more test the waters at the lower fare as opposed to give away a ton of seats. Having watched quite a few flights it's pretty common as they feel the need to open lower buckets they will sit at [X]9[Y]0 for a day or two then go to [Y]1 before eventually expanding to [Y]3, and [Y]7 a few days later if no one bites when it is [Y]1. Additionally with their usage of continuous pricing it makes this less relevant if they put something at [X]9[Y]1 as long as you're booking through a direct UA channel as you'll get things like described a few posts previous where W4 for 5 passengers booked into W still.
Originally Posted by
fwfdan
A lot of the old limitations carried forward even with new technology and platforms.
For example - electronic tickets kept the paper ticket limit of four coupons (flight segments) per ticket. Anything with more than 4 segments still require multiple ticket numbers (conjunctive ticketing) even thought the old paper tickets are gone... (pretty sure that is still true)
Though that eTicket limitation was carried over to make conversion from paper to eTicket and vice-versa compatible as when eTicket initially came out you still had to support both, and what easier way to do that then make it the same structure.