Any "Latest & Greatest about Delta?" Part 2
10-17-2024 | 08:01 AM
#6501
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Prob the same reason that restaurants don't slash their prices towards closing time. If you are known to slash at the last minute, everyone waits until the last minute. They prob make more from last minute FCFL(I do this regularly when flights dont look great). It would obviously be great for us, but not ideal for them.
10-17-2024 | 08:05 AM
#6502
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Prob the same reason that restaurants don't slash their prices towards closing time. If you are known to slash at the last minute, everyone waits until the last minute. They prob make more from last minute FCFL(I do this regularly when flights dont look great). It would obviously be great for us, but not ideal for them.
Are you going as far as insinuating Delta has a revenue management department?????
And here I assumed that Delta garners a revenue premium because they are just perennially lucky! /S
10-17-2024 | 05:13 PM
#6503
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Other than the "oops" reward passes I don't think we will ever get positive space passes. Non-rev is exactly that... non revenue travel, the company makes no money on the seat. FCFL is not a non-rev seat but a ticket discount. Sure, every employee would love a free or deaply discounted ticket, but... If Delta is going to remove seats from inventory they are forgoing revenue. Excess seats that go unsold have no opportunity cost so they are free.
10-17-2024 | 05:56 PM
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Prob the same reason that restaurants don't slash their prices towards closing time. If you are known to slash at the last minute, everyone waits until the last minute. They prob make more from last minute FCFL(I do this regularly when flights dont look great). It would obviously be great for us, but not ideal for them.
10-17-2024 | 07:18 PM
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Prob the same reason that restaurants don't slash their prices towards closing time. If you are known to slash at the last minute, everyone waits until the last minute. They prob make more from last minute FCFL(I do this regularly when flights dont look great). It would obviously be great for us, but not ideal for them.
10-17-2024 | 08:39 PM
#6506
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United does exactly that for its employees though. Confirmed employee-only fares booked many weeks / months in advance are generally comparable to our FCFL fares. If a considerable number of seats remain open a day or two before departure, they drop their employee fares sharply (I’ve seen as low as $40). It’s all based on revenue management’s algorithm predicting that the seats are highly unlikely to be sold to paying customers.
10-18-2024 | 02:48 AM
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If blocked, you can ask the gate agent to do it up to :30 prior. Cancel/relist is also an option, as others have said (subject to checked bags issues, as you said).
*allegedly :30 minutes, but more typically whenever the gate agent “takes control” ~1:00 out; prob longer for international
10-18-2024 | 05:07 AM
#6508
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Outside the cutoff time,* you can simply check in again & make different choices in the process.
If blocked, you can ask the gate agent to do it up to :30 prior. Cancel/relist is also an option, as others have said (subject to checked bags issues, as you said).
*allegedly :30 minutes, but more typically whenever the gate agent “takes control” ~1:00 out; prob longer for international
If blocked, you can ask the gate agent to do it up to :30 prior. Cancel/relist is also an option, as others have said (subject to checked bags issues, as you said).
*allegedly :30 minutes, but more typically whenever the gate agent “takes control” ~1:00 out; prob longer for international
10-18-2024 | 06:17 AM
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I always thought this was a no-no, so I went on DNet to look. Which explains how to change your check in code after checking in and cutoff to do so. I do think it’s in bad form when 3 pilots are standing there trying to nonrev home, and last minute the jr guy throws down the S2 and takes the last seat. I never use my S2s anyway, not sure why I hold onto them and don’t use to commute home…… guess I learned something today.
Now that’s something we should change. If you book the JS, we should be able to flow back to a seat if available with our seniority date. When your turn in the list comes up, the Agent should ask us if we want a seat or a JS (like AA does). But that’s never going to change…
10-18-2024 | 06:42 AM
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I use my S2 the month prior to my anniversary date. The Jr pilot is using his S2 benefit, same as OBWS, it’s a benefit and everyone can use it at their wish. Same way I had the JS and endeavor pilots gets first and I ended up in a middle seat in coach. I decided to book and keep the JS…
Now that’s something we should change. If you book the JS, we should be able to flow back to a seat if available with our seniority date. When your turn in the list comes up, the Agent should ask us if we want a seat or a JS (like AA does). But that’s never going to change…
Now that’s something we should change. If you book the JS, we should be able to flow back to a seat if available with our seniority date. When your turn in the list comes up, the Agent should ask us if we want a seat or a JS (like AA does). But that’s never going to change…
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