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Saturday evening at 5:00pm EST Northwest Airlines completed the matching by all legacy airlines of the $10 roundtrip increase initiated by United Airlines mid-day Friday. At the same on time United Airlines rolled back 20% of its initial initiated airfare hike from Friday mostly on city pairs touching smaller regional airports (90% of the rollback). On Sunday evening at 5:00pm American Airlines rolled back about 15% of its matching increase from Friday evening mostly on city pairs touching smaller regional airports (75% of the rollback). |
Monday is normally decision day on airfare hikes that have been matched over the weekend.
The close of business Tuesday normally determines the final outcome of an attempted increase. I expect there to be some competitive price jockeying today (3 airfare distributions) with most likely outcome of the 3rd sticky increase of 2008 out of 5 attempts.
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