OK, I'm just foolin around on usairways.com (what else? it's Friday night) and so a round trip from CLT to ROC leaving Oct 25 (next Monday) and returning the following Monday and it's $1,017.00. My question is this....why don't they make it $1,017.95? If they did that then all the $1,017.00 tickets they sold now give an additional dollar (almost) and anyone willing to pay $1,017.00 would certainly pay $1,017.95, wouldn't they?
So I figure it this way....U isn't really gouging their customers because they are not using the normal retail pricing strategy and so in effect they are actually saving their customers a dollar (almost) every time they spend a grand! What a great marketing gimmick that is!
Seriously, is U likely to "follow" WN and B6 and whatever identifier America West uses and get rid of these 100 minute $1,000.00 flights (or for that matter those 5 hour $1,000.00 flights)? Or are the 7 and 14 day restrictions going to stay for the CLT market?
jm
So I figure it this way....U isn't really gouging their customers because they are not using the normal retail pricing strategy and so in effect they are actually saving their customers a dollar (almost) every time they spend a grand! What a great marketing gimmick that is!
Seriously, is U likely to "follow" WN and B6 and whatever identifier America West uses and get rid of these 100 minute $1,000.00 flights (or for that matter those 5 hour $1,000.00 flights)? Or are the 7 and 14 day restrictions going to stay for the CLT market?
jm