No one ever said it was simple - air fares

[RichardMannion]

Good article (and paper) on air fare structuring.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/ ... e_software

Thanks,
Richard

Originally posted by RichardMannion
Good article (and paper) on air fare structuring.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/ ... e_software

A friend works for ITA Software. Says it's a damn good company, with some very cool ideas.

Mike

Richard

Thanks for the link. An interesting read.

I liked the follow up that pointed out the value of time to the traveller isn't factored in; possibly because for some companies that's the employee's time (still got to put in your contracted time at the client) and therefore has no value to the employer who's paying the airfare.

It may go some way to explaining why our travel agency system inevitably presents to a colleague flying Newcastle - Southampton/ Heathrow, as preferred-choice-please-explain-why-you're-not-taking-this, a routing via Amsterdam.

Paul