"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 21:38:54 on Tue, 17 Dec
2013, tim...... remarked:
You really don't understand yield management, do you?

Yes I do

But you don't.


Of course I do, don't be such and idiot

It's about selling the highest priced fares to people who insist in
direct flights,

and the cheapest ones to people who book early

Completely orthogonal to the issues we are discussing.

No it's not

The only reason that the indirect foliage were cheaper was because I was
looking months ahead

Try a couple of days ahead and LH are no longer interesting in bribing pax
to fly via FRA (probably because the connecting flight is full)


then filling the remaining seats with people on feeders from nearby. The
result maximises revenue, even if some people get cheaper flights as a
result of agreeing to be those indirect passengers.

That's fine, but it's no reason to insist you need a hub so that you can
fill a plane that you have artificially made less full than it might have
been

More proof you don't understand yield management.

Rubbish

tim