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Not that it's any consolation, but I know a few people who are quite senior at Emirates. We were out for a drink the other night (world cup live on TV, corporate hospitality, prawn sandwiches agogo) and I asked them how they, or any other airline, figures out their pricing and how come it varies so much from airline to airline and day to day. Genuinely, unless there was some major conspiracy of silence, none of them had a clue!
Having said that, there must be people at any airline who fix the prices for flights. You can't just leave it to the cleaning lady, or maybe they do. It's quite interesting. I'll try to find out more about how it works and will post again.
But SIMON, that price you got that jumped from 400 to nearly 3,000. I'd be willing to bet that it turned out that economy flights were full so it automatically priced it for business class, but it didn't tell you that. No airline on earth would charge that much for economy.
Not yet anyway! A few more test missiles from North Korea, a bit more sabre rattling from Bush, and who knows where the oil price will go.
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