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Piedmont Airlines: Discount Seat Allocat...

Pfeifer, Phillip E...

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Piedmont Airlines: Discount Seat Allocation (A)

Pfeifer, Phillip E.

QA-0339 | Published April 5, 1985 | 10 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

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The manager of the revenue enhancement department of a small airline has to decide the optimal number of seats to reserve for discount customers on a particular flight. In order to help make the decision, historical data are given as well as probability distributions of demand for both full and discount fares. (The B case is QA-0340.)

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