Originally Posted by
peasant
Married sector control - yes, increase in application. Redemptions are still on flight/ leg basis. So rather than BA assigning 4 seats for FRA-JFK, they assign 4 on FRA-LHR and 4 on LHR-JFK, and 'first come first served' and you need availability on both legs. May change if/ when BA move to 'dynamic redemptions' (so using bid price control for redemptions)
Hotlines & other distressed inventory - not sure. There shouldn't be a requirement for a unique RBD for them though.
OK, good, it would be contradictory to BAC's sector-based redemption pricing if they imposed married sector logic over the top of that. I'm sure that would provide an IT complexity well beyond BA anyway tbh.
Married sector logic is often a pain for many bookings I make on LH group airlines and if BA adopt this it is only going to complicate things further. I have lost count of the number of times I have booked LIS-MUC-PRG or LIS-MUC-BER in order to get a seat on LIS-MUC and this nonsense only serves to increase hidden city ticketing which the airlines also claim to hate.