Originally Posted by
Ribble56
Yes we know how it works its not 94% of rock bottom fares is it, its simple as the plane fills up it gets more expensive, so 94% at LPL will yield roughly the same elsewhere.
I think you've just demonstrated that you don't know how it works. The likes of RYR have complex software tracking and predicting sales on a given route, and so the 100th seat on the same route may have been sold for a different price on every flight. Add in the fact that you are talking about different airports (MAN/LPL) and the waters are muddied even further.
Bottom line is that MAN, LPL and RYR are not charities, nor do they make decisions based on whether MAN or LPL is sexier, or has more hunky spotters. In this particular case RYR have decided that over a certain period they can make more money operating the route from MAN than from LPL. There may be a 'new route' incentive (I forget if MAN-Bratislava has been served before), but that works both ways - most people believe that is why Norwegian operated LPL-CPH instead of MAN-CPH despite their other routes to NW England being to MAN.