Systems and methods for determining price competitiveness

Abstract

Disclosed are methods and systems for obtaining airfare data, analyzing the airfare data in response to user provided parameters, transforming the data into a visual display, and providing the display as a visual representation of competitiveness of a plurality of airfare for one or more first carriers compared to one or more second carriers which are different than the first carriers. The disclosed software provides a useful tool for quickly determining which airfares for a carrier are competitive, not competitive or are overly-competitive. The software can determine competitiveness of a carrier by demand segments, against one or more other carrier(s) and in any particular departure vs. return date combinations, over a wide range of possible date combinations. This allows the airlines to quickly diagnose its competitive position and respond quickly to changing airfare data in order to maintain competitiveness and/or reduce dilution (loss of potential revenues due to prices that are lower than what consumers are willing to pay).

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