Originally Posted by Efrem
Trying to pick fixed parameters like "6 seats still unsold a week before" imposes a regularity that simply does not reflect the real world. Sometimes having six seats available a week before means five will almost certainly go unused. Other times that same combination means the flight will probably be oversold. Yield management software knows which is which.
That's kind of the point here...once all of the crazy contingencies that FFPs use as pretexts NOT to open seats are exhausted, and there's STILL 25-50% of an empty J cabin 7 days out, that's the time to release to us the basically 'conditional' award tickets.
Last edited by beaubo; Feb 15, 2006 at 7:50 am