Delta Air Lines

Case Details Sabre’s Airline Segment Fees, Including Southwest’s Advantage

New York — Industry pros always figured Southwest Airlines paid less to global distribution system providers like Sabre than other big airlines. Now they know how much. Southwest’s 2010 per-segment fee to Sabre at U.S. points of sale was $1.35, according to testimony in the US Airways v. Sabre trial here. Segment fees that year…

Offsetting Trends To Keep 2017 Airfares About Flat In North America

[UPDATE, June 28, 2017: BCD Travel’s Advito slightly raised several of its 2017 airfare projections, owing to strong global demand and improving economic conditions. It also increased to $52 per barrel from $50 its assumption for the price of oil, due to geopolitical tension. “Efforts by airlines to push up prices have so far had…

Stats Show Outage Won’t Cause Corporate Payouts Under Delta Guarantee

Delta Air Lines’ operational woes this week appear to be behind it, but financial ramifications still need tallying. The airline’s clients wonder if compensation for their organizations will be part of that. FlightStats data seem to indicate that the answer for now would be no. The U.S. airline industry has envied Delta’s operation for years….

Making Soft Dollars Less Squishy

Big U.S. airlines sell lots of add-ons. Business travelers crave several of them. They get some from status or their company’s travel program. Bundles and fare families can deliver them, too. Ascribing dollar values to these value-adds can be challenging. Reports from the Big Three airlines help make the case about the usefulness of their…

Fare Combinability Issue Cools

After a chaotic six weeks, the brouhaha around fare combinability has simmered down. American, Delta and United have settled on a middle ground, but differed in how they got there. The bottom line seems to be that fare combinability again is permissible for circle trips and when stringing together multiple one-way fares, except for the…

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