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Why does the price of airfare seem to change every few seconds?
I’m trying to book plane tickets for my fiance and I to go from London to San Antonio, Texas (where I’m from) for a couple weeks around Easter. I’ve been online for several hours this morning scouring airline websites (BA, Delta, Northwest, Continental, AA, etc.) and ‘cheap ticket’ providers (Kayak, Travelocity, etc.).
Especially on Delta the fares seem to change every few seconds! I’ll find a good one, then when I select it the website tells me that they’ve sold out of those. Then the price goes up and down and up and down again. WHY?
And does anyone have any good tips on getting a great fare?
It seems like they change every few seconds because they do!
Almost every travel website is tied into a single central reservation system. Airlines sell a set number of tickets within a fare code for each plane. Each ticket price falls into what’s known as a “fare bucket”. When one “bucket” is empty, you’ll be offered a ticket from the next lowest priced “bucket”. Airlines may add certain buckets to the mix on certain dates, so that’s why the prices can go back down. Airline fare buckets are one of the most mysterious things in today’s world…
Since all of the websites are tied into the central reservation system, everything happens real time as you go through the ticket purchase process. You may be purchasing a ticket on Travelocity, but somebody else hit “purchase” for the last ticket in that bucket on Orbitz as you were entering your information.
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