摘要:Using unique data on a low-cost airline posted prices and seat availability, this study sheds some light on whether the airline's actual practice of yield management techniques con- forms with some predictions from economic models of peak-load pricing under demand uncertainty. On the one hand, robust support is found to the notion that prices increase as the seat availability decreases; on the other, theoretical models that do not account for stochastic peak-load pricing fail to capture an important source of dispersion in the data.