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How Technology Has Failed to Improve Your Airline Experience
- pixl97 10y agoTechnology generally improves things by making them more available, higher availability generally reduces costs via a number of factors. Air travel has quite a large number of non-technological limitations. The first is airport size and location. Most in demand locations to travel to have land use limitations on expansion. There simply isn't more room to put stuff there and as demand goes up, over crowding occurs. Expansion is also meet with heavy resistance from people that live near airports. Just building new airports isn't always the answer either. They require massive amounts of land and end up great distances from population centers, demanding more expensive infrastructure to where people want to go. If technology has failed anything in this case, is that it's made cheap tickets available which in turn has increased demand for leisure air travel. Customers traveling for fun are much more price conscious then those travelling for business, and represent the large majority of passengers now.