Winter capacity reductions a little too heavy?
Jan 5, 2011, 9:44 pm
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Yes, but in addition to advance purchase requirements on the fares, DL manages the availability itself as well. If DL is already out of HQK fares, they have probably sold them already. It's not as though they sold everything at T and are missing out.
Jan 5, 2011, 9:53 pm
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That fare difference may look good for Delta at first, but they're not going to sell those seats to anyone whose employer requires them to book the 'lowest reasonable fare'. Being out of seats constrains Delta's ability to go after these fairly pricey tickets, which seems like lost revenue to me when they could theoretically have swapped in a 757 for a 737. It also makes it more difficult to feed international flying to Europe and Latam out of east coast hubs, where connecting traffic might mean more overall revenue than a domestic passenger.
Thank goodness I don't have to follow any "lowest reasonable fare" policy...that just leads to loyalty with no one.