Originally Posted by millionmiler
Consolidator tickets have always been treated seperately. This is nothing new. They are not considered published fares. Its been that way for 40 years. No other airline is different.
True ..... but in the last 40 years, the airline-ticket-buying-landscape has undergone some fundamental changes, primarily as a result of the web.
I have no idea what function, in this day and age, a 'consolidator' performs. If AA has a business model that says a 'consolidator' will sell you a ticket for $600 but if you buy it from us we want $2,300 then all I can say is their business model is fundamentally flawed.
As
JDiver so eloquently said, AA seems to cling to an antidiluvian model of ticket pricing - if you want to go to Paris on short notice, you must be a desperate business person who's willing to pay any price, no matter how ridiculous - so give us $2,300. Maybe AA has the empirical evidence to support the notion that there are still enough people around who are willing to do that. Somehow, I doubt it.