Ready to go steady
13 September 2012
After a couple of years when airline pricing strategy encouraged travel purchasers to snap up bargains on a 'best-on-the-day' basis, it seems the ongoing negotiated deal is now coming back into favour with businesses
At the February Business Travel Show in London, some of the most eye-catching slides presented in seminars came courtesy of bmi British Midland. They showed how the cost of a ticket climbs in the run-up to departure of a flight.
One graph tracked typical pricing on three airlines' earliest service on a Monday morning from Edinburgh to London. These are flights...