If you were watching the news today you probably heard about Southwests quiet fare increases over the weekend and sure enough everyone matched and US Airways extended it to their entire route system.
we have done a full analysis of exactly what occured and who increased airfares when over the weekend.
FareCompare.com’s CEO Rick Seaney has posted […]
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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When is an airfare sale not an airfare sale?
So when is that hot airfare sale really not quite as hot as it seems? When the airline bumps up their prices for a few days, then lowers them back down to the regular price a few days later, but calls that return to tbe regular […]
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 […]
This evening Air Canada raised fares by 2.5%. This is Air Canada’s sixth attempt to increase fares this year. Each previous attempt was ultimately rolled back.
The increase applies to 160 of the top 1,200 markets.
United Airlines matched Air Canada’s increase in the same 160 top markets.
Below are sample round-trip increases for San Francisco to Toronto […]
On Saturday American, Delta and Northwest rolled back a large portion of their most recent $5 one-way increase. This move followed United’s roll back on Friday.
At this point only Continental is still holding firm with the $5 one-way fuel surcharge it put into place Monday night (May 14).
The chart below shows the number of increases […]
The network carriers continued to make fare corrections in today’s
updates. The current changes are bidirectional with carriers filing
both $5 increases and decreases in the same update.
I have updated the table from last night with the latest status of the
$5 increase for walk-up fares in the top 1,200 markets. The biggest
changes are with United where […]
