“It helps us make better, faster, more granular commercial decisions,” says Dominic Kennedy, senior vice president of revenue management, sales, and e-commerce at Virgin Atlantic about the market model his team is using to drive their generative pricing engines in some markets.
“It considers, on a real-time basis, a plethora of different inputs, whether it be demand, capacity, or booking. It has a really sophisticated way of evaluating our positioning relative to competitors, market conditions, and a whole raft of other things that have significance in how demand is manifested,” he adds.
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