Any "Latest & Greatest about Delta?" Part 2
Yesterday, 08:01 AM
#6501
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2005
Posts: 1,131
Prob the same reason that restaurants don't slash their prices towards closing time. If you are known to slash at the last minute, everyone waits until the last minute. They prob make more from last minute FCFL(I do this regularly when flights dont look great). It would obviously be great for us, but not ideal for them.
Yesterday, 08:05 AM
#6502
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2018
Posts: 3,250
Prob the same reason that restaurants don't slash their prices towards closing time. If you are known to slash at the last minute, everyone waits until the last minute. They prob make more from last minute FCFL(I do this regularly when flights dont look great). It would obviously be great for us, but not ideal for them.
Are you going as far as insinuating Delta has a revenue management department?????
And here I assumed that Delta garners a revenue premium because they are just perennially lucky! /S
Yesterday, 05:13 PM
#6503
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: B737 FO
Posts: 717
Other than the "oops" reward passes I don't think we will ever get positive space passes. Non-rev is exactly that... non revenue travel, the company makes no money on the seat. FCFL is not a non-rev seat but a ticket discount. Sure, every employee would love a free or deaply discounted ticket, but... If Delta is going to remove seats from inventory they are forgoing revenue. Excess seats that go unsold have no opportunity cost so they are free.
Yesterday, 05:56 PM
#6504
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2021
Posts: 236
Prob the same reason that restaurants don't slash their prices towards closing time. If you are known to slash at the last minute, everyone waits until the last minute. They prob make more from last minute FCFL(I do this regularly when flights dont look great). It would obviously be great for us, but not ideal for them.
Yesterday, 07:18 PM
#6505
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2022
Posts: 955
Prob the same reason that restaurants don't slash their prices towards closing time. If you are known to slash at the last minute, everyone waits until the last minute. They prob make more from last minute FCFL(I do this regularly when flights dont look great). It would obviously be great for us, but not ideal for them.
Yesterday, 08:39 PM
#6506
Can’t find crew pickup
Joined APC: Jun 2021
Posts: 2,296
United does exactly that for its employees though. Confirmed employee-only fares booked many weeks / months in advance are generally comparable to our FCFL fares. If a considerable number of seats remain open a day or two before departure, they drop their employee fares sharply (I’ve seen as low as $40). It’s all based on revenue management’s algorithm predicting that the seats are highly unlikely to be sold to paying customers.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
