Todd Walton wrote:
I heard on the radio last night that a mathematician tried to
mathematically solve airline pricing. For one flight alone (American
Airlines, Boston to San Francisco) he found 25 million different
prices based on who you're buying it through, what time of day,
availability, are you a frequent flyer, etc. Now I don't feel so bad
that I
can't figure out which day of the week is supposed to be cheaper to
fly.
Well, the airlines are doing that on purpose, after all. The goal is to
set up enough restrictions in order to create differential pricing
(charging more to customers willing to pay more).
In addition, there is a reason why most of the airline ticketing
services subcontract to companies which build AI expert systems out of
Lisp in order to generate airline ticket options.
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