Weekend Sales?????
Aug 29, 2003 | 7:18 pm
#1
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Weekend Sales?????
All,
Last weekend I saw some very interesting fares from EWR to GRU (around $300) to fly between September and October. Stupid me, I thought I could wait until Monday but these were gone by then. Since I am new to Continental and that I did not see any advertising in Continental's site saying that there was a Weekend Sale, I wonder if this is an usual practice by Continental to offer extremely good fares during weekends?
Thanks,
Rodrigo
Last weekend I saw some very interesting fares from EWR to GRU (around $300) to fly between September and October. Stupid me, I thought I could wait until Monday but these were gone by then. Since I am new to Continental and that I did not see any advertising in Continental's site saying that there was a Weekend Sale, I wonder if this is an usual practice by Continental to offer extremely good fares during weekends?
Thanks,
Rodrigo
Aug 29, 2003 | 10:33 pm
#2
Join Date: Oct 1999
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My observation is that generally fares go up and availabilty of the lower fare buckets goes down on weekends, although with airlines you never know what they're gonna do.
A while back I was lookin' for a good fare to San Juan, every Saturday the fare would go up about $100, and drop back down by Sunday night or Monday.
Lots of times they have un-advertised sales that don't last long, probably to gage the demand for yield management planning purposes.
As always, your mileage may vary.
[This message has been edited by snake (edited 08-29-2003).]
A while back I was lookin' for a good fare to San Juan, every Saturday the fare would go up about $100, and drop back down by Sunday night or Monday.
Lots of times they have un-advertised sales that don't last long, probably to gage the demand for yield management planning purposes.
As always, your mileage may vary.
[This message has been edited by snake (edited 08-29-2003).]