The fundamental objective of yield management is to maximise revenue. Your suggestion appears to be for it to maximise load factors instead, while trying reasonably not to exceed 100% wherever possible.
While that may or may not be sensible I'd point out that it's actually a very different objective indeed, and would come with bit cash opportunity cost. As Bald Rick suggests, waiting for everyone else in the events industry to get their arrangements together and only then deciding on pricing and availability will cause huge lost revenue. Of course you could still take the view that this is better than what we had until recently, and what the railway is funded for. But I'd say that there are much better uses of such increased subsidy than accommodations to the extremely lucrative sports industry.
That was probably the worst possible way to handle it. Going from implying people working at home are lazy to, overnight, saying that you must work at home unless impossible. I don't think anyone will listen to the government's view on the matter now. They'll do what works well for them personally based on their circumstances - and based on the best ways to fit in with their colleagues and managers. This makes prediction challenging.
Exactly. Personally I don't give a fig what Sunak thinks about how I should do my work. I am interested only in what my boss thinks and what my individual preferences are.
Same goes for high and increasing real prices for office workers. But nobody is more responsible for that high price level than the Chancellor.
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