Business/First class airfare tickets policy.

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 09:45:30AM -0800, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> So, folks should definitely read the policy on how the fare search works.
> There's a "time saver" table that gives additional budget the more time one
> saves, so it's sometimes as much as $600 additional budget (not merely $100).
> (Martin notes this in his email.)
> 
> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > However, if I buy the higher class ticket directly, I'd only get 50% of the
> > economy ticket because you want to penalize me.  How is that fair?
> 
> The 50% was just a "guess" on how to address the issue; I'm not saying that's
> the right number.
> 
> This is a classic case from my point of view of "the rich get richer".
> Someone might do a flight search, it might yield a high budget because the
> flight search has a cheap flight that's really long.  So they get $X+600 as a
> budget, but a totally reasonable-length economy ticket is actually only
> $X+100 (this is quite typical).  The flyer books that, and they aren't
> wealthy, so they can't consider buying an upgrade.

IIUC, you are proposing using (X+Y)/2 where X is the cheapest price and
100 <= Y <= 600. Would just using X be sufficient?


Thanks
Ian