cracauer@
Developer
But 32000 different fares per flight? What was going on? That is more than 100 per seat, is that fine tuning for "customer uses iPhone? y/n, drives a XYZ, ...."?
They just like to put out all these fares that have rules to restrict when and by who and on which total routes they are usable. Multiply by fares filed to turn them on and off with seat availability[*]. Multiply by codeshares with different carriers. Did I mention the rules are turing-complete and can make up new fares in masses?
[*] Seat availability data has almost nothing to do with seats actually being free. It is a mechanism to turn on and off fares previously filed. Seat availability data changes at 10 Hz, fares get updated much more rarely in big dataset pushed - so seat availability is used to pick from previously filed fares.