Originally Posted by
scai
What’s the purpose for subdividing all the fare classes? - Optimize revenue of course. The assumption is that the mass majority of customers are price sensitive (especially in Y cabin). As the airline operator, you definitely don't want scare away potential customers by not display the most attractive discounted economy ticket when 90 pct of the seats are still empty.
Yes, you can argue CX should display all 9 options I listed, but what motives to do so? 1. Not everyone has the patience or cares enough to choose which ticket is to their benefits, too much information is not generally good for locking in tickets; 2. Why risk exposing subclass inventories?
They already optimise revenue by class of travel and unbundling of rebooking options.
Hiding the fare code seems like cost avoidance ie CX is trying to get away with paying for status benefits (or incurring its own)
Not revenue optimisation IMO, as they aren’t keen to make it easy for people to pay for it.