>you can probably only reliably make a profit during rush times (i.e., Thanksgiving, December) Still, it'd be a nice way to get a bolus of cash for buying, say

>you can probably only reliably make a profit during rush times (i.e., Thanksgiving, December) Still, it'd be a nice way to get a bolus of cash for buying, say, December holiday presents. >Also, if you guess wrong and a popular flight did not fill up -- you have to take the flights! You don't have to take the flights... Last I flew, there wasn't anybody forcing people to get on the plane. As long as you're willing to eat the loss (which you have to be in a speculative endeavor), you can skip boarding the first available flight and still try to win auctions on the rest of them. I suspect the real problem with doing this is the relatively large up-front capital investment: depending on the flights, you're looking at the 100-500 dollar range per-ticket which they hold for at least a month.