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Look, let me just put it this way. Have you ever paid more than $1000 for a single domestic airline ticket for leisure travel? Because as a former IBM SE, I'v
by blantonl 6y ago
Look, let me just put it this way. Have you ever paid more than $1000 for a single domestic airline ticket for leisure travel?
Because as a former IBM SE, I've done it HUNDREDS of times for business travel. Literally hundreds of times. Last second tickets, fully refundable tickets, you name it.
The ticket pricing market is designed to extract maximum revenue from business travelers (convenience) and keep them coming back (loyalty programs).
Don't be obtuse and argumentative. This is the way it is and it is a fact. Stop trying to find answers that don't exist.
- PaulHoule 6y agoThat argument might make some sense if the airline business was consistently profitable. But it isn't https://www.routledge.com/Why-Cant-We-Make-Money-in-Aviation/Pilarski/p/book/9780754649113 https://www.routledge.com/Why-Cant-We-Make-Money-in-Aviation... In the last decade airlines merged a lot and have gotten some monopoly profits in the US but that looks like it is all over. More fundamentally airlines look like a broken business that makes excuses after the fact and is allowed to get away with by enablers.