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Why Is UA More Expensive Than SAA?  
User currently offlineStretch 8 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 2561 posts, RR: 19
Posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 2014 times:

Check this out: In searching fares on the United and South African Airways websites; same route, same aircraft (an SAA flight on the ass-flatening IAD-DKK-JNB route), the SAA return price is around $1,100 (cattle class) whereas United wants closer to $1,500.

What gives?


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User currently offlinesignol From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2007, 2948 posts, RR: 7
Reply 1, posted (3 years 1 month 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 2008 times:

Presumably, if it is a codeshare flight, the reservations systems are treating it as two separate flights. A certain number of seats are blocked for UA customers. Given that each airline will use its own yield management strategies to sell its own block of tickets, I can only assume that UA has sold more of its tickets than SAA has on the same plane...
I've noticed this before with for example the DL flight LHR-JFK - tickets can be cheaper if bought from KL as a KL codeshare operated by DL.

signol


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