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One thing to consider in the real world. Often on certain routes, an airline has a regular clientale that fills up a significant capacity on that route at fairly low prices. Examples are corporate arrangements where one or more corporate clients can have regular "commute" traffic between the two locations. For example, IBM employees can apparently fly RDU-LGA on AA for less than $60 R/T with no Sat night stayover or advance booking requirements. IBM employees take up a lot of seats on such a route.
The other example is of travel/tour consolidators that get a bloc of seats. Any airline that has such an arrangement is not really trying to compete with the others who may not have such arrangements in those routes. In other words, their lower priced fares are already "sold out". Unless they have a lot of empty seats available there is no need to reduce the price for such routes. |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by venk: One thing to consider in the real world. Often on certain routes, an airline has a regular clientale that fills up a significant capacity on that route at fairly low prices. Examples are corporate arrangements where one or more corporate clients can have regular "commute" traffic between the two locations. For example, IBM employees can apparently fly RDU-LGA on AA for less than $60 R/T with no Sat night stayover or advance booking requirements. IBM employees take up a lot of seats on such a route. The other example is of travel/tour consolidators that get a bloc of seats. Any airline that has such an arrangement is not really trying to compete with the others who may not have such arrangements in those routes. In other words, their lower priced fares are already "sold out". Unless they have a lot of empty seats available there is no need to reduce the price for such routes.</font> But that would seem to only amplify Old Gold's point-- why pay more to get less? |
I agree Jon. Just wanted to point out that this may not be an endemic problem with CO in not wanting to be competitive. All airlines are non-competitive in specific routes.
CO has a lot of arrogance but this pricing is not necessarily a sign of such. |
I think that in the case I've illustrated there are two seperate issues.
The first is the non-competitive fare, we're looking at a mid-week departure, too. The second issue is the inability to use OnPass mileage to upgrade on a fare that is obviously not a competitive match. |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by thesilb: The simple fact is Continental pricing in many markets is just not competitive any longer. I see this more and more, all the time now. It used to be "a little" higher, but CO fares in many markets are so very much higher now that I have to actually select other airlines. And, like you Old Gold, I'm an infinite elite, so its not an easy choice to swtich off Continental. But I cannot pay 1.5-3x the lowest available rate just to fly on Continental.</font> Good hunting. . . [This message has been edited by tvx (edited 04-19-2002).] |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by venk: CO has a lot of arrogance but this pricing is not necessarily a sign of such.</font> |
OG,
What website did you use to find that in the fare rules? I checked travelocity and ITN and neither of them displayed that line despite the fact that the agents said that this fare had that in there. |
LGA_UAL: You have to use the CO website to find the upgrade restriction text, you won't find it on the rules displayed on ITN or Travelocity. It's displayed fairly close to the beginning of the fare rules.
If the fare's been changed you may not be able to find the rules for the fare basis you're ticketed in. I don't know of any way to pull up the rules for a ticket that has already been issued if the fare isn't still available. If that's the case you have to take their word for it. p.s. Are you going to be around LGA on Thursday morning, by any chance? [This message has been edited by Old Gold (edited 04-19-2002).] |
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