Tag Archives: Yield Management

Revival Of The Sales Manager

In the past months, IATA secretary general Giovanni Bisignani has published one horror scenario for the airline industry after another. At the same time, I have worked with an airline that had always addressed e-Commerce as a part of the sales portfolio and in the past year increased their sales force beyond the airline’s growth [...]

Business Development in time of crisis

Looking at the financial crisis, many companies reconsider their sales focus. What I addressed in my ASRA-presentation this year suddenly seems to trigger. Everyone can sell cheap. So if you are in sales, you need to focus your attention on the products that need sales support. This week, I had quite a discussion about the [...]

The Fairy Tale Of The Best Available Rate

This represents the core of a quite lengthy and detailed discussion. A hotel manager regretted the change from the RAC-Rate to the BAR (Best Available Rate) and compared it to Yield Management in Aviation.Three misinterpretations in one sentence… The rack-rate (off the Rack) has always been – and is – the rate, anyone “selling” a [...]