Seats are almost always available, but they could cost you a lot of miles if
the flight is in high demand.
While Alaska operated this route already, seats on nonstop
flights are in high demand, and now companion fare holders have more from which to choose.
It gives Southwest more flexibility to charge more when
flights are in high demand.
Not exact matches
Removing these
high priced, YQ heavy
flights also removes a large number of low level awards — which further hurts your ability to find seats to book with your AA miles.This
is why a good amount of diversity
in your mileage programs
is important, as
is knowing your
demand for miles.
Director commercial of Garuda Indonesia, Handayani, explained that the airline
is increasing
flight frequency on the Jakarta - Amsterdam route to keep up with
high travel
demands to Europe, as well as to accommodate increasing traffic between Indonesia and countries
in Europe.
Other airlines typically charge more miles for Mexico and Caribbean
flights than they do for regular domestic
flights because they
are in high demand for vacations with miles, but Southwest didn't do that, creating some really good value for Rapid Rewards members.
If there has to
be demand constraint, we will then bring
in the analysis I mentioned earlier of where
are these
flights, and one of the questions we will ask
is, «How many of the
flights which occur
are of sufficiently short distances either because they
are domestic or they
are London to the south of France, London to the skiing resorts, et cetera», that there
is a believable story that they do not have to
be flights, they can
be high - speed rail, or
are quite a lot of them things where, realistically, it
is never going to
be competed by
high - speed rail and, therefore, you actually have to say that we have got to constrain
demand in an absolute sense and people just will not
be able to make as many journeys as they would want to
in an unconstrained fashion.