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| From | Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | cam.misc |
| Subject | Re: Cambridge North car parking |
| Date | 2024-03-12 20:01 +0000 |
| Organization | Roland Perry |
| Message-ID | <l+hRKwOESL8lFAI2@perry.uk> (permalink) |
| References | (12 earlier) <0Q91Bv1t076lFA4S@perry.uk> <ush6ud$27tk2$1@dont-email.me> <sV$o7gDrrb7lFwjD@bancom.co.uk> <cE0$UJCMly7lFAEn@perry.uk> <usq7n7$ehr7$1@dont-email.me> |
In message <usq7n7$ehr7$1@dont-email.me>, at 18:42:49 on Tue, 12 Mar 2024, Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> remarked: >On 11/03/2024 15:54, Roland Perry wrote: >> In message <sV$o7gDrrb7lFwjD@bancom.co.uk>, at 13:51:39 on Sun, 10 >>Mar 2024, tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> remarked: > >>> Course time of day and day of week do have a bearing on it. >>> >>> There is, it seems to me, a sort of fascination with train tickets that >>> isn't there with Air fares?... >> Air fares have even more complicated structures, off-peak periods, >>surge pricing, split ticketing etc than train tickets. >> So much so that the general public usually just gives up and asks >>for a price, then decides if that's what they are prepared to pay. >> I would go much further than that and explore all the parameters >>(which includes multiple airlines of course). > >I'm flying to Washington DC in May to bury my head in the Duke >Ellington manuscripts at the Smithsonian. I'm wondering whether there >is any value in taking the cheapo flight from Stansted via Rekjavic >with some airline I've never heard of, in the daytime on the Sunday but >trying to get a one-way ticket back via BA/Lufthansa/usual suspects on >the direct overnight flights to Heathrow. > >There's certainly a *massive* difference in the return-trip tickets for >those two routes. > >As for silly pricing, I was going to do the usual Sunday daytime then >Friday night overnight return, but I discovered these days there is a >massive price hike on most airlines if you do that, and it's better to >fly back on Saturday. Even cheaper to fly Saturday to Saturday, but >that means a Sunday with nowt to do in DC and an extra hotel night. > >It's just an extremely IRRITATING load of nonsense, all of it. It's called yield management. You price tickets which are in demand higher than ones which aren't. In your homily above you've even given two cast iron examples of why cheaper fares bring with them inconvenience. So to avoid flying with empty seats, the airline has to price them lower. -- Roland Perry
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Re: Cambridge North car parking pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk (Peter Maydell) - 2024-03-15 09:15 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 14:17 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 14:40 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 16:25 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Michael Kilpatrick <news@mkilpatrick.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 17:01 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-17 07:46 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-14 16:22 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-03-13 16:41 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-13 19:59 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-08 17:18 +0000
Re: Cambridge North car parking Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> - 2024-03-08 17:16 +0000
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