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One problem is that the airlines are both unbundling services AND using price discrimination to nickle and dime people. The extra services are marked up with cr
by rhino369 10y ago
One problem is that the airlines are both unbundling services AND using price discrimination to nickle and dime people. The extra services are marked up with crazy margins.
The people paying these fees are actually subsidizing the person who pay the vanilla fare.
It costs essentially nothing for the airline to let me pick a seat, but they now want 20 dollars a flight to do it.
- hx87 10y ago> It costs essentially nothing for the airline to let me pick a seat If someone is willing to pay the airline $20 more than you to pick a given seat, free seat picking costs them $20.
- rhino369 10y agoIf you wanted to refine loss of revenue as a cost, you'd have to account for how many actually pay it. If 10% of the flight pays the seat tool, it only costs 2 bucks, not 20.