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On to Nashville

EverettGriz said:
What's ironic is that it appears to be people searching for the fares that is driving the price up. Flights leaving SeaTac are approx $1,000 RT. But when you look into it, the loads on those flights are actually fairly minimal and there are plenty of seats available. But the system tells you there are "11 others looking at this route" so I'm guessing that's driving the algorithm to raise prices
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As cat99 said, the airline pricing is highly susceptible to climbing higher based on possible/perceived demand. Sold seats will do it, yet even as you found it can still happen with plenty of empty seats.

It is the airlines pricing algorithm I mentioned elsewhere. Airfares climb when there is a significant amount of searches for a certain market. Same thing for you individually. If you continually check prices on the same dates, for the same destination, the airlines will begin to slowly increase the fare they are showing you. Their assumption (that is their computer programing assumption) is that this individual is serious about that trip and the algorithm is designed to hose you to maximize their revenue.
 
If most of the Cat fans bought the airline tickets on Southwest Airlines out of Montana for championship weekend what would potentially happen if cats lost this week and those seats got cancelled (I assume cat fans get a flight credit) would those prices go down or stay high on southwest airlines trying to get out of Montana and to Nashville? I'm just not sure how the airlines work and seats. Guess it could be the same question for the other airlines. (delta/alaska) It seems most cat fans have the seats on lock down right now as they should have been doing pre-planning.
 
Brother Bear said:
If most of the Cat fans bought the airline tickets on Southwest Airlines out of Montana for championship weekend what would potentially happen if cats lost this week and those seats got cancelled (I assume cat fans get a flight credit) would those prices go down or stay high on southwest airlines trying to get out of Montana and to Nashville? I'm just not sure how the airlines work and seats. Guess it could be the same question for the other airlines. (delta/alaska) It seems most cat fans have the seats on lock down right now as they should have been doing pre-planning.
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Well Southwest isn't gonna want the flight to go empty. So if the cats lose and they cancel their flights, then all of those people would receive a credit for a future flight, but now that flight out of Bozeman will have lots of empty seats on it so they would have to lower the price when there could be upwards of say 80 seats that they need to fill.
 
GrizInTheZoo said:
Booked my flights this morning - part of a family visit trip I was already making to Tennessee, and we’ll hit the Natty irregardless of who’s playing.

Flights for me and my wife from Missoula to Nashville and back: $3100.
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We are going too. Whether it is Griz or Cats, it's still a Montana team.
 
EverettGriz said:
Depends. I know Nashville routes out of Seattle are sky high (because many Montanans will fly Alaska through Seattle). I would bet the same is true of Denver and perhaps Minneapolis.
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Something came up and I will be in Bozeman Saturday. Might see if there are any desperate scalpers. Any suggestions.
 
grizfuntimes said:
Something came up and I will be in Bozeman Saturday. Might see if there are any desperate scalpers. Any suggestions.
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Go to the game at least an hour early. Stand outside the gates.

20,000 tickets were sold. Someone didn't show up as planned and whomever holds their ticket will want to recover the money. Go Griz!
 
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