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Am I the only one that doesnt really care about quality? I want cheaper flights and thats it.

by cptaj 8y ago

ghaff 8y ago
Obviously not. Many people do even while they bitch about the results. For myself, I clearly want quality up to some level of cost tradeoff. I rarely go for cheapest with respect to travel.
jdavis703 8y ago
You're not the only one. I'd gladly stand on a short flight, say between LA and SFO or between Philly and Washington, DC. Those flights are faster than some subway rides, and no one complains about being crammed in to subway cars.
- philwelch 8y ago
  Those are also routes where it barely makes any sense to fly in the first place; any civilized country would have high speed rail for those routes.
  - 24gttghh 8y ago
    The Acela takes about 1:45 hours between PHL and DC and costs as low as $39, while driving a car takes anywhere from 40min to 2 hours longer than that[0]. It's not EU 'high-speed', but it moves at roughly double highway speeds at times. Granted, on that section it averages like 96-112kmh (60-70MPH) I think, as it makes a couple stops (Wilmington, DE and Baltimore, MD at least). [0]https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Philadelphia,+Pennsylvania/Washington,+District+of+Columbia/@39.4208519,-77.2221818,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m21!4m20!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c6b7d8d4b54beb:0x89f514d88c3e58c1!2m2!1d-75.1652215!2d39.9525839!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7c6de5af6e45b:0xc2524522d4885d2a!2m2!1d-77.0368707!2d38.9071923!2m6!5e0!5e1!5e2!5e3!6e0!8j1536609238!3e3 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Philadelphia,+Pennsylvania/W...
cabernal 8y ago
You might care about quality when you're in a 12+ hour flight.
- dopamean 8y ago
  For me that's going to depend greatly on how cheap it was. I just flew WowAir to Europe for a ridiculously low price and thought for the price I got the trip was straight up luxurious.
fipple 8y ago
The very price sensitive customers like you are very numerous, but it’s the frequent price-insensitive business travelers that make up much more of the industry’s profits. So they care much more about the 5 million frequent business travelers, who do care about these things, than they do about the 500 million occasional travelers, half of whom have little to no profitability impact on the airline.
- joering2 8y ago
  I highly doubt it. And do you have anything ti back that up? Because 5 million versus 500 that seems large difference. Afaik airlines constantly lose money and the only time they make up for the whole year are xmas and national holidays such as thankgiving and independence day. In fact even when you buy xmas time ticket in 2030, it will be accordingly overpriced.
  - stevesearer 8y ago
    Here is a relevant and interesting video about airline classes and pricing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc
komali2 8y ago
I was that way for a while, when I finally got the money to start traveling. It took about five or six round trip "knees cramped into the chair" style flights before I started realizing the extra leg room of an exit row or bigger seat was worth the 20-100$, or that landing at 5am wasn't worth the 35$ it saved me on a 200$ flight. I don't know if I'm getting older or just my values are changing, but I stop thinking of the money spent and start simply enjoying more comfortable travel.
SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
I'm 6'6". Any air travel long than like an hour and a half is a cramped, claustrophobic hell. If I can find seats with more leg room, I take them. I'd also love more shoulder room - spending the whole flight trying to slouch as much as possible to stay out of people's way is no fun.

Am I the only one that doesnt really care about quality? I want cheaper flights and thats it.

by cptaj 8y ago

Am I the only one that doesnt really care about quality? I want cheaper flights and thats it.

Obviously not. Many people do even while they bitch about the results. For myself, I clearly want quality up to some level of cost tradeoff. I rarely go for cheapest with respect to travel.

jdavis703 8y ago

You're not the only one. I'd gladly stand on a short flight, say between LA and SFO or between Philly and Washington, DC. Those flights are faster than some subway rides, and no one complains about being crammed in to subway cars.

philwelch 8y ago
Those are also routes where it barely makes any sense to fly in the first place; any civilized country would have high speed rail for those routes.
- 24gttghh 8y ago
  The Acela takes about 1:45 hours between PHL and DC and costs as low as $39, while driving a car takes anywhere from 40min to 2 hours longer than that[0]. It's not EU 'high-speed', but it moves at roughly double highway speeds at times. Granted, on that section it averages like 96-112kmh (60-70MPH) I think, as it makes a couple stops (Wilmington, DE and Baltimore, MD at least). [0]https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Philadelphia,+Pennsylvania/Washington,+District+of+Columbia/@39.4208519,-77.2221818,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m21!4m20!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c6b7d8d4b54beb:0x89f514d88c3e58c1!2m2!1d-75.1652215!2d39.9525839!1m5!1m1!1s0x89b7c6de5af6e45b:0xc2524522d4885d2a!2m2!1d-77.0368707!2d38.9071923!2m6!5e0!5e1!5e2!5e3!6e0!8j1536609238!3e3 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Philadelphia,+Pennsylvania/W...

cabernal 8y ago

You might care about quality when you're in a 12+ hour flight.

dopamean 8y ago
For me that's going to depend greatly on how cheap it was. I just flew WowAir to Europe for a ridiculously low price and thought for the price I got the trip was straight up luxurious.

fipple 8y ago

The very price sensitive customers like you are very numerous, but it’s the frequent price-insensitive business travelers that make up much more of the industry’s profits. So they care much more about the 5 million frequent business travelers, who do care about these things, than they do about the 500 million occasional travelers, half of whom have little to no profitability impact on the airline.

joering2 8y ago
I highly doubt it. And do you have anything ti back that up? Because 5 million versus 500 that seems large difference. Afaik airlines constantly lose money and the only time they make up for the whole year are xmas and national holidays such as thankgiving and independence day. In fact even when you buy xmas time ticket in 2030, it will be accordingly overpriced.
- stevesearer 8y ago
  Here is a relevant and interesting video about airline classes and pricing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5xtGGsTc

komali2 8y ago

I was that way for a while, when I finally got the money to start traveling. It took about five or six round trip "knees cramped into the chair" style flights before I started realizing the extra leg room of an exit row or bigger seat was worth the 20-100$, or that landing at 5am wasn't worth the 35$ it saved me on a 200$ flight. I don't know if I'm getting older or just my values are changing, but I stop thinking of the money spent and start simply enjoying more comfortable travel.

SketchySeaBeast 8y ago

I'm 6'6". Any air travel long than like an hour and a half is a cramped, claustrophobic hell. If I can find seats with more leg room, I take them. I'd also love more shoulder room - spending the whole flight trying to slouch as much as possible to stay out of people's way is no fun.