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fbergen · 2022-12-23 03:43:34

Wouldn't Price to Book (P/B) sort this out?

altern8 | karma 1322 | avg karma 4.81 · | 2015-10-07 08:09:07+00:00

Wouldn't they charge more and more as seats get booked?

joshu | karma 14055 | avg karma 3.32 · | 2015-11-24 11:24:41

I agree. The price of the thing should depend on the parameters of the thing and the buyer's willingness to pay the price, and not other factors.

That said, I thought ticket prices were regulated by the IATA?

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mullr | karma 929 | avg karma 2.79 · | 2010-07-13 08:15:53+00:00

I wonder how that compares to the cost of booking time on a system of similar class, assuming said systems can be booked?

kurupt213 | karma 487 | avg karma 0.76 · | 2022-09-02 22:24:00

But how would they charge absurd rebooking fees?

NhanH | karma 3935 | avg karma 3.37 · | 2014-08-19 15:55:59

But you have already paid for the ticket, isn't it?

The other question I'm wondering would be, how could it be possible in that case that A -> B directly would be more expensive than A -> B ->C ?

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Bud | karma 9252 | avg karma 2.94 · | 2011-02-08 17:34:50+00:00

Yeah. I think that. You have to admit your ticket price. In advance, not at check-in when it's too late to back out.

nodata | karma 6208 | avg karma 2.31 · | 2013-08-09 11:11:38

1k? Really? That's like 2 booking fees.

digi_owl | karma 9592 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2017-07-31 18:08:37+00:00

We already see this with how airlines alter the pricing depending on when the ticket is bought and whatsnot (because if it is bought for a middle of the week trip etc, it is likely to be a business trip).

winter_blue | karma 2830 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2023-07-11 13:48:42

You'd still likely need an auction system on top of fixed A-to-B prices, since first-come-first-serve might not be the most optimal system for holiday travel.

lmm | karma 42440 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2023-08-15 22:12:20

Surely the infrastructure owner can offer whatever pricing structure they like. Per-seat fees aren't exactly rare in private industry contracts either.

anigbrowl | karma 91010 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2021-04-28 22:31:01+00:00

I don't regard that as value; your reservation price is what you can't afford to go below, not what you want.

throwAway2021_1 | karma 4 | avg karma 0.67 · | 2021-02-22 08:09:01+00:00

Yes, I've already checked them: they are pricing per seat or per reservation.

ummonk | karma 11811 | avg karma 2.67 · | 2019-09-27 10:32:44

It won't be someone's profitability, it'll be the ticket price that you pay.

karzeem | karma 2406 | avg karma 4.82 · | 2016-01-07 17:51:54+00:00

They could charge sellers the greater of the purchase price or the market price of the ticket at the time of cancellation.

TeMPOraL | karma 106045 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2015-02-25 17:51:49+00:00

As the presentation above suggests, this would have a problem with, well, staying profitable. Tourist air travel is so heavily underpriced that you can barely tank up the jet with what you collected from people. That's one of (or maybe even the) reason for such variety in ticket prices.

motiejus | karma 1542 | avg karma 9.82 · | 2021-08-22 08:07:40

The booking fee is per booking, not per ticket (at least it was about a decade ago when I last did this route with megabus).

So technically the ticket price can be as close to £1 as you want it to be.

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bengali3 | karma 369 | avg karma 1.56 · | 2015-09-18 18:29:02

Agreed, I think the assumption that ticket price is somehow related to cost is the violation here.

tomjen3 | karma 9638 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2019-03-19 16:46:32+00:00

I don't think it is unreasonable to purchase 4 or 10 seats at cost, but if you are considering buying 2 thousands, wouldn't you try to negotiate something?

tfe | karma 1639 | avg karma 11.0 · | 2014-12-23 15:29:15+00:00

Maybe some plan tiers based on number of reservations processed? I can't see myself paying anywhere near $20 each on average though.