In this afternoon’s update, Continental rolled back its $5 increase in 604 top markets. United and Delta also rolled back the increase in some top markets.
Below is a chart with the current stats. At this point Continental has the fewest top markets with the increase still in place (9%).
While in the last 12 days there have been two attempts at system-wide fare increases, the index remains stubbornly low, and actually declined during Delta’s initial increase.
What’s been happening is that the carrier pricing is going in both directions at the same time. So while there are system-wide increases, there are also decreases being filed […]
In this morning’s update, US Airways rolled back it’s $5 increase in Southwest overlap markets. American and United also rolled back more of their fare increases.
For now, Continental has not rolled back any of its increases.
Below is a chart with the current status of the increase. US Airways and American are now at 20%, meaning […]
This evening American, Delta, Northwest and United all rolled back the
$5 increase in Southwest overlap markets. Below is a chart showing the
original increase and tonight’s partial roll back.
We can expect US Airways and Continental to follow with their own roll
backs tomorrow.
While the carriers have rolled back in Southwest markets, the increase
is still in effect for […]
This evening Northwest Airlines joined the $5 one-way increase started
by Delta on May 10th.
Northwest’s increase affects 632 of the top 1,200 markets. In the last
round started by Continental on May 3rd, Northwest matched the increase
in only 20% of the top markets. For this round, Northwest is matching
in 50% of the top markets. By matching in […]
In this evening’s update United and US Airways joined Delta’s $5
increase.
United’s increase affects 748 of the top 1,200 markets.
US Airways increase affects 773 of the top 1,200 markets.
Northwest has not yet joined in on this round of increases.
The next update is tomorrow evening at 5 pm.
In the afternoon update, Continental and Midwest both joined Delta’s $5
increase.
Continental’s increase affects 716 of the top 1,200 markets
Midwest’s increase affects 262 of the top 1,200 markets.
The next fare update is this evening at 8 pm.
In this morning’s update, American matched the $5 one-way increase.
American’s increase affects 659 of the top 1,200 markets.
This round of increases was started by Delta last night. This is
Delta’s third attempt to raise fares this year.
We can expect other carriers to match in the afternoon and evening fare
updates.
This evening Delta filed a system-wide $5 increase (one-way). The
increase affects 767 of the top 1,200 markets. The increase applies to
walk-up, 3-day, 7-day, 14-day and 21-day fares.
This is the sixth attempt at a system-wide increase by the network
carriers this year. The previous five increases were only marginally
successful in great part due to the lack of […]
The index currently stands at 430. On the same day in 2006 the index was at 474 and 484 in 2005.
The chart here shows clearly the gap between the trend lines for 2005 and 2006 versus what we are seeing so far in 2007.
Our analysis has shown a correlation between the index value and […]
