BA's Advance Booking Curve Revealed

A recent flight cancellation gives us a rare glimpse of BA’s forward bookings on the Hong Kong route

Understanding advance bookings is one of the keys to airline revenue management. And when it comes to all-things top secret in aviation, it does not get more sensitive than this.

Airlines will tell us through the Global Distribution System when there are only a few seats left for sale. But the extent to which they are 25%, 50% or 75% booked up is known o…