In the late hours of the evening, I obviously have too much spare time if I'm musing about CO's yield management software. xyzzy's comment in another thread touched on CO's excellent yield management, and I've long wondered whether the software is individualized.

For example, if 5 passenger on a given EWR-SEA flight are connecting from BWI, does CO look only at historical data and conclude that 80% of BWI-EWR-SEA passengers show up? Alternatively, does CO look at profiles of passengers A - E and conclude that passenger A shows up 20% of the time whereas passengers B-E show up 100% of the time? Depending on the numbers, the results could be rather different.