Price Hike again to choose seat
Feb 24, 2020, 4:29 pm
#106
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Nick, I won’t deny the simplification of my response. I think you need commercial data to support your hypothesis. I suppose my BCN-LHR datapoint gives one example where BA was rather good at protecting seat choices for full fare customers and less successful at collecting ancillary revenue.
Feb 25, 2020, 12:10 am
#107
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Since I presume many were calling up to ask why they couldn’t select a seat, but that few bother to call up to haggle I would look no further than reduced customer contact load for a reason that there is a price but it’s rather higher than most would pay.
Feb 28, 2020, 3:17 pm
#108
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When I took my first business trip on BA last year, I think it allowed me free seat selection (in CW). This was before I linked my OW Sapphire FF number to the reservation. So it seems that in addition to OW elites, certain corporate contracts have this written in. I think my fare class was "J" (though the price my company paid was clearly a discounted fare)
Feb 28, 2020, 11:27 pm
#109
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When I took my first business trip on BA last year, I think it allowed me free seat selection (in CW). This was before I linked my OW Sapphire FF number to the reservation. So it seems that in addition to OW elites, certain corporate contracts have this written in. I think my fare class was "J" (though the price my company paid was clearly a discounted fare)