Ever wonder which cities have had the most new lows so far this year? I’m sure this one has kept you up at night….
Actually I wanted to see if I could get a better handle on pricing leadership in specific markets. Unfortunately I didn’t really come up with an answer for that question, but […]
During our tracking we’ve noted dramatic short-term fare fluctuations for Cincinnati. According to BTS data, Delta and Comair support 80% of the traffic in the CVG market.
Our deals engine kicked out an interesting fare on Monday filed by United. United dropped its walk up fare for Cincinnati to San Francisco from $1,448 on March 25th […]
Fares have been see-sawing this week, reaching a relative high of 464 on Sunday when all of the network carriers joined in on Delta’s fare increase.
Starting on Monday the carriers began their retreat, rolling back the $5 increase in many markets and especially Southwest overlap markets.
The retreat continued yesterday and on top of that United […]
Yesterday carriers rolled back the $5 increase in successive waves. While the scope of the original increase has been much reduced, so far at least, this increase appears to be holding.
This morning American, Continental, Delta and United all rolled back a significant portion of the $5 fare increases. While rolling back some increases, Delta expanded its $5 increase in the same update to secondary markets.
Alaska Airlines also joined in on the $5 increase in this morning’s feed. Alaska’s increase affects 86 top markets.
Note that a […]
Last night Northwest joined Delta’s system-wide increase, raising fares by $5 one-way.
At this point all of the network carriers have joined Delta’s increase which began on March 22.
It is not unusual for all of the network carriers to join in on an increase and still have the increase rolled back.
Last night Continental, United and US Airways joined Delta’s system-wide increase raising fares by $5 one-way.
At this point all of the network carriers except Northwest have joined in on Delta’s increase.
In the 12:30 update today American Airlines matched Delta’s $5 one-way increase.
American raised fares in 778 top markets (74% of American’s top markets). Delta’s increase last night affected 803 top markets (71% of Delta’s top markets).
Top markets: 1,250 most traveled city pairs in the US and Canada.
I am going to try to do a weekly round up highlighting the changes in the airfare index and the major movers and shakers of the past week.
For the week ending March 23, the biggest fare event was Delta’s $5 increase last night. It’s been more than 45 days since Delta last tried to make […]
None of the network carriers matched Delta’s $5 increase in the 10 am update this morning. There is an update at 12:30 and 8 pm today as well as updates at 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday. Typically by Sunday night it is clear whether or not the increase will stick.
For clarification, I am using […]
