There's yield management
And there's WTF 🤯 yield management
Morning of Friday 5th June I need to go to either Bruxelles or Maastricht (I don't know which yet). If Maastricht I will change in Liège
Tickets then...
Paris - Bruxelles, Eurostar
€95 single, standard class
Paris - Liège, Eurostar
*SAME TRAIN, and FURTHER THAN BRUXELLES*
€39 single, standard class
@jon my understanding is that the idea is to save some seats for Liège, which only sees 1tp2h vs 2tph to Brussels. the Brussels passengers can just take a different train
that doesn't particularly explain why the non-liège trains are also expensive, though
@bovine3dom @jon But incidentally the Bruxelles-only train is the more expensive one 🤔 Not much of a nudge, is it?
(Of course that's not rigorous A/B testing, perhaps baseline demand is way higher on the 07:23 train and 109€ is a relative bargain. Although that's only an half-hour gap.)
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