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Original Post: An end to the saturday stay-over?
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This is interesting news. Sounds like Delta is going to break ranks and stop punishing business travelers who don't want to sacrifice their weekends:
The biggest present for airline passengers, though, may be from Delta. Next week the nation's second largest carrier is expected to become the first of the so-called Big Six (American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, United and US Airways) to radically change its pricing policy nationwide, removing irritating ticketing rules like required Saturday-night stays, halving ticket-change fees to $50 from $100 and slashing fares on everything from first class to last-minute tickets.
If that is the case, then the other major airlines will have no choice but to respond - and that response will trickle through the entire travel industry. Hotel and rental car pricing is built around the saturday stay assumption - look at all the "weekend get away" marketing you see from hotels. It's not that the concept of a quick holiday will be destroyed - but a lot of the underlying price support for it will dry up. You know what the slowest thing to change in light of this will end up being? Corporate travel policies....
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