[HN Gopher] Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into ...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare
       Buckets
        
       Author : bdev12345
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2025-07-21 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.getjetback.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.getjetback.com)
        
       | username135 wrote:
       | Was not expecting to read the whole thing. Very interesting.
        
         | Majromax wrote:
         | Was it really interesting? To me, it has certain hallmarks of
         | an AI-generated article. In particular, it introduces the same
         | concept several times, in different sections. For example, fare
         | classes, nested booking, and the SABRE system each get two
         | different introductions.
         | 
         | The content seems legitimate, but I felt like my time was being
         | wasted through at minimum a lack of editing.
        
           | itake wrote:
           | Yeah, there was a lot of repetitive information which made me
           | lose interest
        
           | stronglikedan wrote:
           | Should have passed it through AI for a summary!
        
           | andy99 wrote:
           | > To me, it has certain hallmarks of an AI-generated article.
           | 
           | I wondered that too.
           | 
           | I don't want to offend anyone, and have no idea how it was
           | written, and I already know most of this stuff so am not the
           | audience. But respectfully I feel like it had a lot of words
           | for a fairly shallow overview, which feels AI-ish, plus the
           | "delve" at the beginning got my radar up. This is sort of
           | what I expect from Manus or one of those ersatz "research"
           | LLMs. Anyway, it's got lots of upvotes, hopefully people are
           | finding it useful.
           | 
           | (Edit to add: it's actually content marketing for some kind
           | of [questionable, subscribe to access some hidden refund
           | thing] travel company so I don't feel bad criticizing
           | anymore)
        
       | JSR_FDED wrote:
       | Great overview.
       | 
       | It would seem that the old rule of thumb of booking long in
       | advance to get a cheaper ticket isn't really relevant anymore?
        
         | itake wrote:
         | I didn't have that take. My understanding is the only time
         | you're guaranteed to have low-cost ticket availability is when
         | the flight is initially allowing booking.
         | 
         | Later, as more tickets are sold they have more information
         | about the flight and thus they may make adjustments to the
         | ticket pricing. Either opening up more low-cost tickets that
         | were sold at the beginning of the flight or reducing the number
         | of low-cost tickets to meet high demand.
        
           | AlotOfReading wrote:
           | It's worth pointing out that the initial fares will be
           | comparatively cheap fare classes, but they may not be the
           | _cheapest_ prices depending on what happens with demand
           | closer to the flight date. You can often get better fares by
           | waiting if you 're flexible.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2025-07-21 23:00 UTC)