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.
Tickets are incredibly cheap unless it's a single service market. Fly from the small airport near my house, $250. Fly from the nearest major airport an hour away, DL/UA/F9 all under $100. If you average 4 trips per month, that's less than $5K/yr.
What I'd like to see if commuting/DDH language defining what's acceptable with a confirmed ticket. The company often builds trips where there's an OAL DH 1 hour prior to operating a leg, but I wouldn't without PWA language saying I can. I think there's something in the SRH that DDH just has to be as early as the planned DH. But then, sometimes the trip is built with the DH coming in way early for no obvious reason. I'd like to see a line in the PWA that says if you've purchased a confirmed ticket, 1 hour with no backup is enough when commuting and orig DH not to exceed 3 hours (you never need more than 3 hours no matter how early the scheduled) for DDH. They'd probably want an exception for charter/mil/transoceanic. That'd be a basically no cost improvement.