Originally Posted by
saturn
If it's so cheap? It's not cheap for me to buy a ticket. But for Delta it may cost nothing a majority of the time.
If you are booked without the ability to select a seat assignment, in a fare class that doesn't impact authorized seats for sale... if that flight doesn't go oversold...the booking cost Delta 0 dollars and 0 cents. And I listed ways to reduce the times we buy off customers.
But I have a feeling it really isnt about costs in section 6.
Yeah the cost is wayyyy lower than people think. Really it's just moving commuters to the top of the non-rev list. Because how many flights depart each day with zero non-revs on? Very few. So those seats are just going to positive space commuters first--instead of non-revs, not instead of paying passengers in the vast majority of cases.