Pricing Logic
Mar 15, 2011 | 11:13 am
#1
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Pricing Logic
Hello All,
Been following the forum for some time and having got a lot out of it, thought I'd share something I came across.
Booking as follows: LGW-DXB-BNE-AKL-SYD-DXB-LGW in F for myself and the mrs. On-line price Ł3800 for 1 person, priced as 2 person Ł9300. Thought, OK maybe limited fare availability, and decided to chance it by making two seperate bookings. Lo and behold, both booked for Ł3800 each.
Top marks to EK for revenue optimisation strategy. Anyone else come across this before?
Been following the forum for some time and having got a lot out of it, thought I'd share something I came across.
Booking as follows: LGW-DXB-BNE-AKL-SYD-DXB-LGW in F for myself and the mrs. On-line price Ł3800 for 1 person, priced as 2 person Ł9300. Thought, OK maybe limited fare availability, and decided to chance it by making two seperate bookings. Lo and behold, both booked for Ł3800 each.
Top marks to EK for revenue optimisation strategy. Anyone else come across this before?
Mar 15, 2011 | 12:06 pm
#2
Join Date: Mar 2011
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I had this before - tried to book 2 tickets to CPT, price was almost 300 Euro more than 1 ticket.
After I booked the first tickets, the price for the 2nd ticket was still much more higher but after 6 hours I tried again and voila same price as the first ticket.
After I booked the first tickets, the price for the 2nd ticket was still much more higher but after 6 hours I tried again and voila same price as the first ticket.
Mar 15, 2011 | 1:26 pm
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had a slightly different experience - was trying 4 Y return tickets from JFK - TA was saying no availability (had the same thing when i checked online) and then tried booked them separately 2 + 2 and it went through with the same fare class for both the PNRs
dont know enough about airline ticketing to understand but i suspected at the time that i got lucky and the seats opened up when 2+2 was being tried so i thought it was a matter of extremely good timing
dont know enough about airline ticketing to understand but i suspected at the time that i got lucky and the seats opened up when 2+2 was being tried so i thought it was a matter of extremely good timing
Mar 15, 2011 | 8:39 pm
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Hi. I'm located in Melbourne and this ticket basically equated to $6000 AUD. If u book the same ticket flying from australia to London return its almost $15000! Can someone, anyone explain to me why Australian flyers get ripped off?
Mar 15, 2011 | 11:31 pm
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If you really want to tip yourself over the edge, price a few itineraries out of CMB (Columbo).
An example:
SIN-JFK in J = US$7631
CMB-JFK in J = US$4031
Even buying the SIN-CMB-SIN leg to connect costs you all of SGD$500 (in Y) and it goes on to DXB anyway.
The weird and wonderful world of yield management and airfares I'm afraid. Good deals also ex BKK
An example:
SIN-JFK in J = US$7631
CMB-JFK in J = US$4031
Even buying the SIN-CMB-SIN leg to connect costs you all of SGD$500 (in Y) and it goes on to DXB anyway.
The weird and wonderful world of yield management and airfares I'm afraid. Good deals also ex BKK
Mar 16, 2011 | 1:47 am
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I mean for the amount of money you could potentially save, it would be worth it to find your way to BKK/CMB or even SIN, and start from there (depending on location)
Especially if it was for vacation or a honeymoon and your dates/times were flexible.
Mar 17, 2011 | 3:32 am
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Mar 17, 2011 | 2:29 pm
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Hello All,
Been following the forum for some time and having got a lot out of it, thought I'd share something I came across.
Booking as follows: LGW-DXB-BNE-AKL-SYD-DXB-LGW in F for myself and the mrs. On-line price Ł3800 for 1 person, priced as 2 person Ł9300. Thought, OK maybe limited fare availability, and decided to chance it by making two seperate bookings. Lo and behold, both booked for Ł3800 each.
Top marks to EK for revenue optimisation strategy. Anyone else come across this before?
Been following the forum for some time and having got a lot out of it, thought I'd share something I came across.
Booking as follows: LGW-DXB-BNE-AKL-SYD-DXB-LGW in F for myself and the mrs. On-line price Ł3800 for 1 person, priced as 2 person Ł9300. Thought, OK maybe limited fare availability, and decided to chance it by making two seperate bookings. Lo and behold, both booked for Ł3800 each.
Top marks to EK for revenue optimisation strategy. Anyone else come across this before?
The complication of multi seat bookings is that yield system has to project how much more fares they should earn from you across all seats, and that would push up fares especially if flights are already highly booked.
I imagine that in your case, when you were booking your 2nd seat, there were booking cancellations on the flights you were going to travel, so the cheaper fare became available again.