Air Fares

[Max Lobovsky]

Originally Posted by Ken Loyd

Max,

My wife works for the airline and it has taken us two years to speak face to face to the VP. He is not interested in broad estimates (we have furnished them in the past). He wants to see team numbers, number of people traveling, from where to where. He is looking for ways for the airline to make money and the teams to save money. If you know of a better way, I am all ears.

Ken

I didn't realize you were going to be using these numbers directly, I thought you were looking for a general estimate. Anyway, good luck! (for your sake and ours )

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by Ken Loyd

Max,

My wife works for the airline and it has taken us two years to speak face to face to the VP. He is not interested in broad estimates (we have furnished them in the past). He wants to see team numbers, number of people traveling, from where to where. He is looking for ways for the airline to make money and the teams to save money. If you know of a better way, I am all ears.

Ken

FIRST may have better numbers on this. As for destinations, there are 31 destinations, with the biggest airline destination being Atlanta, but I am sure you realized that.

FIRST may also have data from the year the American Airlines offered a discount. I seem to recall that alot of teams were still able to find cheaper tickets elsewhere though...

Wetzel

[Madison]

It might be useful to know which airline you're speaking with so that teams can find the airport closest to them that such airline services and give you more accurate information about loads and departure dates.

Teams here need to fly Seattle-Tacoma Int'l to William B. Hartsfield Int'l, but jetBlue, for example, isn't a useful airline for that -- no matter how great the discount.

[Ken Loyd]

[quote=M. Krass]It might be useful to know which airline you're speaking with so that teams can find the airport closest to them that such airline services and give you more accurate information about loads and departure dates.

M,

I hesitate to mention the airline at this time because I fear this post might then become a "dump on" airlines post. I am simply attempting to gather some numbers (especially for regional travel) to present to the "number crunchers" at corporate. The airline currently has a group discount but it varies with group size, purchase date, destination. What we are attempting to do is have a FIRST discount which would be subtracted from the lowest fare. As I am sure you are aware, many airlines are in deep trouble. We are trying to find a way for the airline to make a small profit and still give the teams the maximum savings. As I said in an earlier post, we have been working on this for two years. At least we finally have found someone willing to talk to us.

Ken

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LAX to ATL approx 30 people