Proposal for a Delta Black Friday Sale
Nov 24, 2011, 3:29 pm
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Proposal for a Delta Black Friday Sale
Delta should participate in Black Friday by releasing low level award seat on flights that have more than 50% capacity available. Perhaps then it would lose the title of the world's stingiest frequent flyer redemption program.
Nov 24, 2011, 9:04 pm
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Nov 24, 2011, 10:30 pm
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Nov 25, 2011, 3:00 am
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Black Friday Delta Doorbuster Alert: PHX-FLL for sale. US200.00 a/i. Only 10 seats available. Must come to the PHX ticket office at 2:00 am.
Nov 25, 2011, 8:15 am
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Nov 28, 2011, 7:24 pm
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I say they do 1 $100 flight to each city from a Hub city at 6am, but the trick is you have to get it from the GA while she is doing her preboarding check. I bet that would be interesting
Nov 28, 2011, 10:05 pm
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AS Cyber Monday
Too bad I found out too late about Cyber Monday deals by partner Alaska.
Sample from Seattle:
$40 each way Bay Area, Sacramento and Los Angeles area (except LAX)
$60 each way to San Diego and LAX
$75 each way to Denver, Dallas, Vegas, Houston, Austin, St. Louis,
$100 each way to New York, PHX, TUS, ORD
$125 each way to DCA, MSP, BOS,
among others...
Expiring soon sadly....
Jiburi
Sample from Seattle:
$40 each way Bay Area, Sacramento and Los Angeles area (except LAX)
$60 each way to San Diego and LAX
$75 each way to Denver, Dallas, Vegas, Houston, Austin, St. Louis,
$100 each way to New York, PHX, TUS, ORD
$125 each way to DCA, MSP, BOS,
among others...
Expiring soon sadly....
Jiburi
Nov 28, 2011, 11:17 pm
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Seriously
As I understand it, the airlines have a slower period between thanksgiving and Christmas. So a Black Friday sale should push that inventory. While those with the tools can see which flights have lots of seats, only DL will know which ones to put on sale. They'd have to put 'attractive' cities ideal for short tourism (and maybe have to sync with some outside companies (like Orbitz) to find hotel rooms and TicketMaster for entertainment ideas etc, which they sort of do already in degrees). They can put cities on sale from Maui to Austin to New York to Denver etc. Heck maybe even Paris, Rome and London, Tokyo, Shanghai if they can. They have to be places peope will want to go to see a show or relax or ski or sun at least, if not spend 10-14 days.
Of course I dont know the ideal routes. Airline seat management must be one of the most complicated jobs in the world. As you all know, a seat can only be sold once, sort of like with tv and radio air time, except tv/radio can grab fillers and sell time in packages including prime time and surplus slots. A plane that flies with an empty seat will never be able to recoup that potential revenue.
In general terms, I want the airlines to be profitable and if they have this inventory to sell, a one day Black Friday deep discount sale good for travel that must be initiated and completed during the 3 weeks starting around the Tuesday after Thanksgiving to around December 20th or so might help a lot.
I am taking a quick vacation this week, which I booked with short notice, and got a great deal so I know the inventory and pricing is there, the airlines may need to simply let people know that they are on sale.
Of course I dont know the ideal routes. Airline seat management must be one of the most complicated jobs in the world. As you all know, a seat can only be sold once, sort of like with tv and radio air time, except tv/radio can grab fillers and sell time in packages including prime time and surplus slots. A plane that flies with an empty seat will never be able to recoup that potential revenue.
In general terms, I want the airlines to be profitable and if they have this inventory to sell, a one day Black Friday deep discount sale good for travel that must be initiated and completed during the 3 weeks starting around the Tuesday after Thanksgiving to around December 20th or so might help a lot.
I am taking a quick vacation this week, which I booked with short notice, and got a great deal so I know the inventory and pricing is there, the airlines may need to simply let people know that they are on sale.