Comment Re:wtb: cheapest flight anytime (Score 1) 93
SAABRE and the other booking systems are a bit too smart these days to actually make tickets available at some sort of pre-determined price.
Jet fuel costs four times what it did ten years ago. Fleets are getting replaced. You really think they're going to let the system release any $300 seats unless the load factor for that flight is low and converging with the flight day?
Still, it only costs about 30% more in actual dollars than it did in 1999 to fly cross country. That little fact doesn't exactly make me confident that the broken remains of what was once a diverse domestic air travel market are very concerned with the self-loading freight, if you get my drift.