At 12:30pm eastern Continental filed a major increase of 5$ one-way for both leisure and business fares including 0, 3, 7, 14 and 21 day advance purchase categories.
A total of 7,762 markets (unique city pairs) where increased by 5$ one-way.
Analysis of the tops 50 cities to/from each other yields a total of 1,179 markets and […]
This evening at 8pm partners Air Canada and United Airlines raised airfares for travel between U.S. and Canada (trans-border) by 2 ½ to 3 percent.
This increase includes both business and leisure airfares (0, 3, 7, 10, 14, 21, 30 day advance purchase).
Non-stop analysis shows:
Air Canada has 75 markets with trans-border non-stops. This airfare increase applied […]
19-Jun-07 11:30pm
During the day (19-Jun) there was consistent matching activity on AirTran markets.
The volume was significant
The matching statistics are posted below.
Glossary
Market – city pair
Major Markets – top 1250 city pairs (50 top cities to/from each other), some airlines do not have connecting flights in some markets
19-Jun Decrease Matching Activity
Decrease Markets
Major Decrease Markets
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Monday evening (18-June) at 8pm AirTran filed a system-wide 14-day advance purchase airfare sale (see our original post showing this is the 4th summer airfare sale in the past 40 days by AirTran).
This morning (Tuesday 19-June) at 10:00am all the major airlines except Continental and US Airways matched this airfare sale in overlapping AirTran markets.
Continental […]
When is an airfare sale not an airfare sale?
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5-June-2007 1:30p.m EDT
Review of the 12:30pm EDT airfare distribution feed on 4-June-2007 shows that AirTran triggered the first wave of increases of $5 and $10 each way between 32% of the top 50 U.S. Domestic cities, with Continental matching and extending at 8:00pm EDT along the other major airlines matching selective overlap markets and extending […]
Tonight 4-June-2007 at 8:00 p.m. EDT Continental Airlines filed a major airfare increase (30% of the top U.S. markets) of $5 and $10 one-way.
This increase triggered selective matching (13% or less of top U.S. markets) by American, Delta, Northwest, United and US Airways.
American and Delta also used this opportunity to increase airfares in a similar […]
