¶ … airline ticket pricing varies depending on which day the passenger wishes to fly. This is an important question because it will provide the data necessary to passengers who wish to save money, assuming, of course, that these passengers also have the flexibility to travel on certain days. Considering the fact that most airline passengers are going to pay more to travel via air than they would via almost any other form of transportation, one would think that lowering the expenses of air travel would be appealing to a majority of those traveling via air.
It is assumed that there are trends to air travel and that the airlines track those trends. Assuming that those trends show air travel is not as feasible on certain days of the week, it could also be safely assumed that the airlines would then likely lower the cost of air travel on those days to lure additional passengers. Researching the available data will provide a sense of...
The researcher will use two cities (St. Louis, Missouri and Salt Lake City, Utah) as starting and ending points and will look for ticket pricing on the separate days. Pricing will be based on a non-business, non-discounted ticket. These two cities are being used because both are heavily traveled routes and yet are not so heavily traveled that pricing should be skewed in any manner. Since it is a relatively simple matter to plug in those two cities as destination on the various websites, data generated should be easily gathered by the researcher.
The first airline was Southwest Airlines and the data showed that for the months of December, January and February the non-discounted fare to fly from St. Louis to Salt Lake City (and vice versa) was $396. That price…
