@ Dave Reid
"You can rest assured that Jazz......will have done their sums"..
No you can't !
I'm in private equity and we invest in a broad spectrum of industries and more often than I like so called "professional management" present sums to us that are total tosh...
An aircraft seat is a "perishable" item. If it departs empty a revenue opportunity is lost, as indeed is a flexibility opportunity to reduce pressure on a heavily booked later flight and reduce the risk of paying denied boarding compensation. In this day an age it should be easy to develop software which tells you that you arrive at a solution which benefits both airline and passenger.
But it does appear that the airline booking systems are still rooted somewhere in the 1970's
Last edited by rmac; 26th Oct 2013 at 03:24.