PaxVob (
) "Final thought - does buying last minute inevitably increase the cost. If you're lucky (or the airline is unlucky) enough to get a lightly loaded flight, I would have thought last-minute tickets would be quite cheap?"
AS far as I know, carriers persist with the view that if they discount in the last ten minutes, they will undercut their own market. People will plan on using the last ten minutes, rather than booking. At least, that is the argument that has been put up over the years. With the LCCs, that might change too. They might intorduce "If any seats are left, a max of ten seats in the last ten minutes will be sold at a certain low price." Of course, if you then get late shows ...