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 […]
Just saw in BTN that Southwest has agreed to distribute through Galileo. Not too many details at this point. Here’s the BTN story.
Rick Seaney completed a test of the airline’s low fare guarantees. He found that it is possible to get a refund if the fare you purchase goes down before midnight. The process isn’t always easy and Delta stood out for its customer service.
You can read the full report on airline low fare guarantee’s here.
The Associated Press is reporting that the DoT ruled today to accept Virgin America’s application to offer commercial flights in the US based on Virgin’s revised application submitted back in January.
Virgin’s original application was denied back in December on the grounds that the ownership structure was unclear and that Branson’s Virgin Group appeared to control […]
Thanks to AirTran for creating a special charter flight today to fly the parents and relatives of the Bluffton University baseball team from Toledo, OH to Atlanta.
The team’s bus was in a horrible accident this morning on I-75. Six people died in the crash and Atlanta’s traffic was crippled during the morning rush hour.
AirTran announced […]
