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IN THE financial markets, call options give you the opportunity to buy shares, commodities and other financial instruments on a pre-arranged date at a pre-arranged price. There's no obligation cheap airline tickets for last minute travel to close the deal, so if the price agreed between cheap airline tickets for last minute travel buyer and seller becomes less competitive than the spot price, then the buyer simply walks away. Airline CFOs, for example, typically use call options as part of their fuel-hedging strategies, dampening their exposure to oil-price volatility and lending certainty to their cost projections. Such flexibility comes with a price tag, but it's an expense that United Airlines believes ticket-buying passengers may also consider paying. The Chicago Tribune reports :
Nobody cheap airline tickets for last minute travel wants to buy a $600 nonrefundable ticket, have their plans fall through and not be able to use it—or be forced to pay exorbitant fees to change flights. That's precisely the problem several companies aim to fix by selling, or planning to sell, "options" on airline tickets. United Airlines offers price lock-in options, while at least three other non-airline companies [OptionIt, BitBend and SteadyFare] are starting options services for airfares."
If you're wondering why nobody thought of this before, a quick review of United's Farelock product shows that this isn't quite the magic wand you'd hope for. For example, the fare can only be locked in for either 72 hours or seven days. This relatively short timeframe ensures that the airline stays firmly in the driving seat when it comes to managing its reservations system and adjusting prices according to supply cheap airline tickets for last minute travel and demand.
Such limitations may explain cheap airline tickets for last minute travel why Rick Seaney of FareCompare.com describes airfare options as merely "a discount programme on refundable cheap airline tickets for last minute travel tickets". They may allow some wriggle room for altering plans, but if you want complete flexibility then you'd be forced to buy option after option. At which point it might have been cheaper to simply buy a refundable ticket, or to stomach the $150-or-so fee for altering your non-refundable flight. cheap airline tickets for last minute travel The high fixed costs endemic in the airline industry explain why carriers are reluctant to give too much flexibility to passengers–unlike other travel sectors, cheap airline tickets for last minute travel such as hotels and car rentals–but the question is whether cheap airline tickets for last minute travel having a modicum cheap airline tickets for last minute travel of control over your booking actually makes a difference. No matter which option you eventually call, Gulliver suspects the airline will still be calling the shots.
Perhaps we may actually see the airlines themselves offer these "FareLock and more" programs cheap airline tickets for last minute travel in the future, thanks to some kind of "Black Scholes for tickets" formula (which will be bad for these start-ups…what will these startups do that the airlines won't be able to, by themselves, other than an improved cheap airline tickets for last minute travel formula?).
This is actually a pretty reasonable program, though it's not a panacea (but why measure everything to that standard?). I've found that for $10 or less, I have some additional time to determine cheap airline tickets for last minute travel my travel plans. cheap airline tickets for last minute travel Since in my business my plans sometimes change a day or two after I have made a reservation, this program cheap airline tickets for last minute travel has already saved me at least two tickets.
For shorter periods of time, the US requires airlines to let you have some way of holding a reservation for at least 24 hours without risk. So for example American Airlines will let you place a reservation on "hold" on their website without paying for 24 hours, while Delta will let you cancel a non-refundable reservation and get a full refund up until midnight the day after you book. These tools can be used to get a modicum of flexibility in a similar cheap airline tickets for last minute travel way: simply book the Delta ticket on Tuesday, then Wednesday if the price hasn't moved book another and cancel the first. Repeat daily until you either cheap airline tickets for last minute travel firm up your plans, cheap airline tickets for last minute travel the price on offer increases and you have to decide whether to keep your already-booked lower price, or (oops!) you forget to cancel one of the tickets and are stuck with it.
Sounds just about as pointless as the "travel insurance" that every airline seems so keen to sell you. Despite all the catchy slogans, it should really be called "life insurance" and a pretty skimpy one at that (don't you even think of committing suicide and then claiming back your airfare).
The obvious solution would be to just sell the non refundable tickets cheap airline tickets for last minute travel at the full price which ensures the airline makes a profit, and then let the customers sell them on to somebody else if they don't want to fly anymore. Then you charge the customer a fee for changing the name on the ticket.