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Old Sep 29, 2007 | 2:22 am
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Originally Posted by C-5Crewdog
"Yield Management" would be about generating the most profit per seat and/or flight (which may vary from revenue management")
Since you want to be pedantic about things, "Yield Management" has nothing to do with profitability.

"Yield Management" can be defined as the science of maximizing the "yield" over a given period where "yield" is defined as the revenue earned per revenue seat mile.
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