Reward Flight 'Dynamic Pricing' Discussion
Aug 1, 2018, 9:19 am
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EARNING - based on ticket cost (although this requires carve outs for tickets which include multiple airlines and for partners - look how messy the Miles & More structure is now they have done this)
REDEEMING - Etihad-style, with 'standard' pricing and 'all points' pricing. The latter would actually be the same as the current 'part pay with Avios' with deal and would effectively take the current lowest cash fare multiplied by 0.55p per point. Partner airlines would remain with 'standard' pricing only.
Only a guess but there is nothing radical in the above. My gut feeling is that you can't copy the US airline models because they are more 'closed shops'. I would imagine that a higher % of BA flyers use other oneworld airlines compared to the % of American Airlines members who use other oneworld airlines, so AA hasn't had to focus as much on integrating with partners.
Aug 1, 2018, 9:52 am
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.. My gut feeling is that you can't copy the US airline models because they are more 'closed shops'. I would imagine that a higher % of BA flyers use other oneworld airlines compared to the % of American Airlines members who use other oneworld airlines, so AA hasn't had to focus as much on integrating with partners.