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Great XC award inventory last week, now not

Great XC award inventory last week, now not

 
Old Feb 3, 2012, 6:03 pm
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Great XC award inventory last week, now not

Last week a lot of Business Saver XC award inventory suddenly opened up on UA transpacific. It looked like every second day LAX/SFO-SYD through September had XC available, as many as 6 seats.

Then in the last few days it closed up again. Anybody know what is going on here ??
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Old Feb 3, 2012, 6:46 pm
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Originally Posted by flyGreg
Last week a lot of Business Saver XC award inventory suddenly opened up on UA transpacific. It looked like every second day LAX/SFO-SYD through September had XC available, as many as 6 seats.

Then in the last few days it closed up again. Anybody know what is going on here ??
These things happen. The workings of inventory and revenue management is largely a mystery.
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Old Feb 3, 2012, 7:15 pm
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Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry9630/5.0.0.975 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

no doubt at least some were booked by people. You have to grab these kind of things as soon as you see them!

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Old Feb 3, 2012, 8:30 pm
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Originally Posted by flyGreg
Last week a lot of Business Saver XC award inventory suddenly opened up on UA transpacific. It looked like every second day LAX/SFO-SYD through September had XC available, as many as 6 seats.

Then in the last few days it closed up again. Anybody know what is going on here ??
1 week is a long tim. FTer's usually look at XC and XF inventory three times a day and grab them while they can ;-).
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Old Feb 3, 2012, 9:41 pm
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Same thing happened on a SFO-LHR flight I'm watching. Went to XY9 for a day and then back to zero.
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