On 12/03/2024 20:01, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message , at 18:42:49 on Tue, 12 Mar
> 2024, Michael Kilpatrick remarked:
>> I'm flying to Washington DC in May to bury my head in the Duke
>> Ellington manuscripts at the Smithsonian. I'm wondering whether there
>> is any value in taking the cheapo flight from Stansted via Rekjavic
>> with some airline I've never heard of, in the daytime on the Sunday
>> but trying to get a one-way ticket back via BA/Lufthansa/usual
>> suspects on the direct overnight flights to Heathrow.
>>
>> There's certainly a *massive* difference in the return-trip tickets
>> for those two routes.
>>
>> As for silly pricing, I was going to do the usual Sunday daytime then
>> Friday night overnight return, but I discovered these days there is a
>> massive price hike on most airlines if you do that, and it's better to
>> fly back on Saturday. Even cheaper to fly Saturday to Saturday, but
>> that means a Sunday with nowt to do in DC and an extra hotel night.
>>
>> It's just an extremely IRRITATING load of nonsense, all of it.
>
> It's called yield management. You price tickets which are in demand
> higher than ones which aren't.
>
> In your homily above you've even given two cast iron examples of why
> cheaper fares bring with them inconvenience. So to avoid flying with
> empty seats, the airline has to price them lower.
That's all well and good, but if the lunchtime BA flight on Sun 5th May
is £638 and the return overnight flight on Sat 11th May is £496, why is
it that when the same lunchtime flight to DC the day earlier on Sat 4th
May is £444, the exact same overnight flight on the same Sat 11th May is
then only £271?
Why is the price/demand curve for a return on Sat 11th May dependent on
whether I fly there on the Saturday or Sunday the weekend before?
Michael
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