Cannot help feeling that those of us not on the flight deck have as earlier indicated to deal with children of the MBA line compared to the magemnta line. Same process same problems
Airline booking sophistication occasionally works equally bizarrely in your favour though.
Some years ago I used to go to huge every 4 years trade fair at the conference venue next to Geneva airport. The event outgrew the cities hotel capacity so lots of people flew in for a day and left the same day.
Airlines of course realised this and priced accordingly. However around the turn of the century recession appeared in the telecoms industry and the edict came down every where that thou shall only fly economy.
So now BA who operated 767s to GVA for this week racked up the Y class prices sky high to the point that they were higher than J class and made a fortune because the plane is 85% Y anyway and was going to be full. So close to the day of travel down came the J fares cos that cabin otherwise was empty. I was tipped off about his by a BA friend and we had a comfortable trip other ways with several more senior people in the company jammed in Y. of course there were accusations we had committed the heinous sin of traveling in J but the US based CFO just laughed and said we had just been the smart ones. So sometimes the system does you a favour-not often tho