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Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups
- lordfrito 1y agoApparently the article author hasn't heard about the concept of a "group discount"
- josephcsible 1y agoThe point is that the extent of the group discount is absurd. E.g., the ORD-LEX one, $214 for a single ticket, and then only $1 more for a second one.
- Aurornis 1y agoI’ve been pricing tickets for a family trip recently and I have not seen anything that extreme. That’s definitely a cherry picked example for the article, not the common scenario.
- jjcob 1y agoYeah, typically groups pay more per ticket than individuals. This is probably only on unpopular routes where they know they aren't going to fill the plane.
- paulgb 1y agoPart of what makes it seem shady here is that airline ticket prices are pretty opaque. If they advertised it as a group discount, it would be received differently.
- kenjackson 1y agoAirline pricing in general is pretty opaque. Not hospital pricing opaque, but still pretty opaque. It's one of the few things we regularly purchase where the price changes almost daily (both up and down). For example, bus and train tickets are pretty much the same price each day for the same route. For airlines, I'll often check the price on some future night to see if it is cheaper or not.
- ghaff 1y agoDistance train at least may (or may not depending on location/country) be quite a bit cheaper for advance purchase but maybe doesn't fluctuate as much day to day.
- wwweston 1y agoLike medicine, the price is a negotiation point in a complex web of probabilities. Air travel can be more transparent because the probability network is simpler and the spread is narrower, but they’re both dealing with realities of providing predictable service under volatile demand and group payer conditions.
- ttoinou 1y agoMaybe even if it was a possibility before, it wasn't used and now airlines have enough data and market power to actually make different prices for groups (By the way, if it's about inflating prices for individual, then it's not really volume discounting... it just appears this way on the outside)
- kubectl_h 1y agoIf you read the article than you'd understand it's about degree of discount to which two or more passengers are receiving. In some cases two tickets is almost as cheap as one ticket. If these prices converge it would actually make sense to buy two tickets for one traveler if you value comfort and can afford it.
- dbuxton 1y agoAlthough in this case you actually have to be accompanied by another adult
- MrToadMan 1y agoSeems intuitive: the group passengers are likely to have to cough up another 5-10% more at the time of check-in, in order to sit together, so it all evens out.
- Aurornis 1y agoI never would have understood this as a young, single person. Now that I have a family there are several times per year where we price out the cost of a solo ticket for one parent, the price of taking one or two kids, or the cost of all of us going for something. Having a quantity discount would absolutely tip the scales for us for certain trips. People will look at this as penalizing single travelers and want everyone to have the lowest fare, but that’s not the real alternative. A flat fare would bring solo prices down and group rates up so the blended average is the same.
- n8cpdx 1y agoTraveling solo is already brutal because hotels and Airbnbs are priced on the assumption of two travelers. Traveling solo essentially costs double automatically because of lodging, and it kind of sucks there’s a double whammy with airfare where, unlike lodging, the penalty doesn’t actually make any sense. I guess as a family be grateful that all hotel rooms come with a 50% (or more) discount per traveler?
- growlNark 1y agoHostels are wonderful for single traveling, though. And that's in spite of the fact that hostels also have bulk discounts.
- hellisothers 1y agoHow are 2 travelers priced in? If I rent a 4 passenger car are 4 people priced in?
- 1776smithadam 1y agoWould a van cost more to rent then a sedan?
- chrisweekly 1y agoyes (car rental prices are mostly a function of size)
- eduction 1y agoI would guess this is about middle seats. No one wants them but if you’re part of 2+ party you’re much more likely to take one. The alternative is two aisles side by side but those are tricky to get as the plane fills up.
- layble 1y agoThe business traveler who is less price sensitive and almost always books a solo itinerary.
- VBprogrammer 1y agoIt's a shame this is so far down the page (at least for me, at this moment) because I'm fairly certain you are exactly right.
- ttoinou 1y agoHN comments vote need more than 40 minutes to stabilize
- munificent 1y agoIt's also literally in the article itself: "It's just another way for airlines to continue 'segmenting' their customers, charging business travelers paying with a corporate card more while offering a better deal to families on the exact same flight."
- asdff 1y agoAll my solo flights over the last year were wedding related. That is probably a huge cash cow for the airline and hotel industry. The hotel is basically never full even with the hotel block so it is probably a very welcome cash infusion for them at an otherwise sleepy locale.
- kccqzy 1y ago> less price sensitive As a business traveler I actually want the price to be as high as possible while satisfying the company rules on airfare. The fare is fully reimbursed, so a higher fare means I get more points on my credit card. Now the company rules on airfare will probably reference something like the least-cost logical fare. So it is in a business traveler's interest for all airlines to raise prices simultaneously. Business travel is weird.
- paulgb 1y agoI think this is fair play, they can charge how they want (within reason) and it’s not too different than other bulk discounts. But someone should totally make a site for finding strangers to book the same flight with :)
- pinkmuffinere 1y agolol I love that concept! Replying here so that I’m reminded of the idea in case I get the time
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- paxys 1y agoAny amount of premium is worth not having a random stranger on your itinerary.
- guhidalg 1y agoDo they have to show up? What is the carrier policy on travelers that “miss their uber”?
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- lapetitejort 1y agoNo they don't, but they paid for a ticket, and any insurance amount is probably more than the discount of flying in a group.
- bobro 1y agoWhy?
- paxys 1y agoBecause they may change their plans. They could be a no-show (which will affect your return flight). They could call and change the flight without your knowledge. They could add extras to the trip and charge it to your card. People are flaky, and being on the same itinerary with the same PNR as someone else means your trip is in their hands.
- billyp-rva 1y agoCell phone lines only $30/line when you buy six. What, you don't have a family of six? Weird.
- mattgreenrocks 1y agoOr when you switch to an MVNO :)
- skirmish 1y agoThen it's one line, $10 / month.
- kristjansson 1y agoFor the privilege of using the hand-me-down data of carrier's network (i.e. getting deprioritized in any situation where the network is congested)
- sgerenser 1y agoUSMobile gets you Verizon’s network at the same priority as Verizon customers. $390/year for “unlimited” data (but really 100GB/mo at high speed).
- mattgreenrocks 1y agoYep, that’s who we use. It is half the cost of VZW’s cheapest plan with more data and better QCI. The latter aspect turns out mattering a lot more than I thought.
- chgs 1y agoWhy is American cell phone service so expensive?
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- omosubi 1y agoI don't have any data, but it wouldn't at all surprise me if single/business travelers are way more likely to cancel or change flights, and this is just pricing that into the ticket cost.
- freehorse 1y agoChanging/cancelling flights is not usually for free.
- derac 1y agoYes, it's already baked in. A cancellable ticket is more expensive.
- sidewndr46 1y agoI did it for free once, but I think the airline was just bad at math. I flew most of the legs of my flight. Then the last leg a hurricane showed up and they offered me an opportunity to rebook since it was likely to cancel the flight. When I rebooked, the airline gave me a credit for the round trip flight in total. I only had to book a one way ticket on the last leg, so I obviously was able to "afford" the flight without additional expenditure on my part.
- brigade 1y agoLess than 20% of legacy carrier tickets are basic economy, and even ULCCs don’t always charge a fee anymore. So by numbers, it is usually for free.
- freehorse 1y agoNot where I live at least, by any means.
- ghaff 1y agoI'm skeptical. Not sure why as a solo traveler I'd be more likely to cancel than a family vacation. If anything, more can go wrong in the case of the latter. Business traveler maybe. Not my money and business stuff happens. (Usually they want you to book non-refundable because it comes out ahead in the end.)
- muppetman 1y agoI love how the author thinks they've discovered something super secret, when they have in fact just learnt about "Group Discounts". Author will lose their mind when they buy 10+ of the same thing from AliExpress.
- tantalor 1y agoFrom the conclusion, they seem pretty confident that this is not "business as usual": > Whenever this pricing strategy began, this is a massive change in how airlines set prices – and one that will likely catch many travelers off guard. > Unlike shopping at retail stores or Costco, bulk discounts are unusual for airlines – at least not just for booking just two passengers instead of one. And these higher fares for one passenger are the opposite of what we typically see, where travelers booking for two passengers or more wind up getting charged more per person than a single passenger.
- jjcob 1y agoIt probably just depends on how full the flight is. If the plane is empty, there will be discounts for families, because they want to sell tickets, and families are price concious. Solo travellers usually are not. If the plane is on a popular route, you'll pay through the nose, and there sure as hell won't be any group discounts. You'll pay almost full price for a two year old, because they know they'll fill the plane no matter what.
- legitster 1y ago> Unlike shopping at retail stores or Costco, bulk discounts are unusual for airlines – at least not just for booking just two passengers instead of one. And these higher fares for one passenger are the opposite of what we typically see, where travelers booking for two passengers or more wind up getting charged more per person than a single passenger. This isn't strictly true. Airlines have long offered bulk pricing through travel agencies and booking partners.
- coldcode 1y agoThis was prevalent until the early 2000s, it is far less common today. Corporate discounts used to exist based on guaranteed minimum legs in some time period. This ended when airlines discovered only flying full planes made them more money, making bulk discounts more pain that they were worth.
- desireco42 1y agoI think they because so custom in their pricing that is becoming insane... I wish they are more predictable in how much things cost, it is almost like weather, how much will airfare cost.
- phyzix5761 1y agoIf you can predict consumer demand, trade policy, interest rates, and money printing schedules then you can predict prices. Problem is we can't predict any of those things.
- ttoinou 1y agoHuh if this becomes mainstream there's an opportunity to make a social media website to purchase in groups and make friends for the flights
- mc32 1y agoGood idea in principle. In practice this could invite unscrupulous actors, or people who flake out at higher rates than close family -not that families can’t flake out, but I’d imagine it’d be a lower incidence.
- al_borland 1y agoThere are already websites, like Going, for getting flight deals. As a solo traveler who doesn’t have to coordinate with anyone and can pack light, I can jump on the deals when they come up and save a lot more than what a regular price group rate probably is. Looking at my upcoming trip, I got it for 50% off the current pricing, for solo or a couple. Coordination with others also makes booking take longer and tends to fix dates and locations, which makes it hard to grab a deal when they come up.
- ttoinou 1y agoI "used" Scott Cheap Flights in 2018 for a few years and never found a good deal
- al_borland 1y agoYou have to invert the order of how most people plan travel. Typically people plan in this order: 1. Where to go 2. When to go 3. Check airfare Flip it on its head: 1. Keep an eye out for cheap flights from your home airport 2. Pick one of those destinations 3. Choose when to go Not exactly inverted, but the flight goes from last to first. I had Ireland in my head for my next trip, but then Italy showed up last week. That sounded pretty good, so I checked the dates and found a flight that fit in my schedule, and booked it. It’s not great for getting a flight around a conference, wedding, or some other event you are planning around. But when you know you want to take a vacation to somewhere and sometime this year, it can cut flight costs in half. A single flight ends up paying for the cost of the subscription 10x over, and then some. Also, it could be somewhere near where you want to go. I had tickets to Croatia about 5 years ago, but hand to cancel due to the pandemic. I didn’t know anything about Croatia when I booked, but I figured the worst case scenario was I catch a quick ferry or flight over to Italy once I’m there. Once you’re over there it’s cheap to go one country over. That flight to Croatia was $289, that cheaper than a flight to Nashville for me, which is only about an 8 hour drive. I did the same thing when I booked a flight to Sweden. I didn’t know if I’d like it there, so from there I booked a connection to Copenhagen for next to nothing. I spent a week in Copenhagen, but then ultimately did go back to Sweden for week, which I ended up loving. I’m glad I didn’t spend the whole trip in Copenhagen. Another deal I got that stood out was to Tokyo. I think I paid around $550 give or take. A coworker of mine has family there and goes on a regular basis, he was floored by that price. He always pays over $1k, and usually closer to $1,500. Ultimately it’s just an alert service for flights that are abnormally low. If you have a specific destination in mind, Google Flights is pretty good at showing when the cheapest time to travel is, giving a booking date of today. Of course it fluctuates over time, which is where the alerts come in. It’s saved me thousands. Though I probably would have only taken about 20% of the trips I have without it.
- geverett 1y agoTbh this makes perfect sense. As someone who worked in airline revenue management for 11 years, it always seemed a little odd that the sales tactics people use everywhere else - group discounts, BOGO, etc - weren't being used by airlines (yes, group bookings could often get discounts, but usually for much larger groups). What's remarkable here is that airlines waited this long to do it. Sad news for me as a usually solo traveler who prizes flexibility, but I understand airlines wanting to prioritize groups and more locked-in fares.
- mysterypie 1y ago> As someone who worked in airline revenue management, it always seemed odd that the sales tactics people use everywhere else weren't being used by airlines Remember the really old days when air miles were awarded solely by distance flown rather than by dollars paid? This made no business sense. It meant that someone who flew the cheapest tickets could rack up as many points as a last-minute first class business traveller who spent massively more ticket. With the airlines I’m familiar with, it seems that pricing anomaly has been corrected. Air miles are much more correlated with the price of the ticket these days. Eg., you don’t even get air miles on the cheapest tickets on one airline I know. But I still wonder why the airline industry created an air miles formula so disconnected from the value of the passenger in the early days.
- bronson 1y agoBecause of the difference between: "Congratulations! You flew 100,000 miles with us!" "Congratulations! You spent $100,000 with us!"
- nocoiner 1y agoThe first mileage program was introduced only a couple years after deregulation, so it probably made a lot more sense at the time as a rough proxy for revenue, and revenue management at the airlines wasn’t nearly as sophisticated as it is today.
- listenallyall 1y agoIn the early days you didn't have the internet where people would share every tiny anomaly, allowing thousands of people to exploit them. Even then, you had a few people realize they could do mileage runs, but it was considered additional revenue and the perks of doing so weren't valued nearly as highly as they are today.
- wallunit 1y ago"Penalizing solo travelers" is a hell of a spin on quantity discounts. If this isn't click bait what is?
- bredren 1y agoThis just in: Airlines penalize those not traveling for bereavement.
- DangitBobby 1y agoYou can call it penalizing solo travelers, you can call it inventivizing group travelers. If you look at them relative to each other, both are true.
- deanCommie 1y agoYup. It's funny how this stuff evolves. You used to see "surcharge for visa" but visa made that illegal. So now you see "discount for cash/debit", and everyone is happy!
- fallingknife 1y agoVisa isn't happy. But fuck them in particular.
- account42 1y agoUnfortunately you don't see that in the EU because the EU would rather have centrally controlled financial transactions than act in the interest of the citizens.
- fjasdfwa 1y agoCurious if any others are priced out of traveling? I haven't seen family in 3 years.
- skylerwiernik 1y agoI wonder if this could be abused by purchasing 2+ refundable tickets, and then canceling all but 1.
- Matheus28 1y agoFully refundable tickets are an entirely different fare (and much more expensive)
- ge96 1y agoit's crazy how if you just want a ticket now it could be say $700 but if you wait the same trip can take $150 different providers, I was the former just got something listed on Google Flights with SouthWest but yeah
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- Molitor5901 1y agoAirlines are always doing a negative to consumers. Squeezing passengers, gouging, treating them like they're numbers on a spreadsheet - knowing their options are limited - seems modus operand by the airlines. We need a passenger bill of rights, not just for the airlines, but also how passengers are treated in airports, by security, and concrete cause of action for consumers when airlines misbehave.
- legitster 1y ago> In this case, the rationale for charging solo travelers more is fairly clear: It's just another way for airlines to continue “segmenting” their customers, charging business travelers paying with a corporate card more while offering a better deal to families on the exact same flight. I think the explanation is wrong and the author is jumping to conclusions. Airlines have long offered "bulk" discounts. Their goal is to fill as many seats on a flight as possible. What we are seeing here is their group pricing creep into their direct sales.
- lvl155 1y agoAirlines need to be regulated and treated like public utility which is exactly what they are.
- guhidalg 1y agoI think the governments only role is to guarantee the planes don’t fall out of the sky or crash into each other, and then the airlines can price compete.
- crazygringo 1y agoNo they aren't. Public utilities generally give you only one choice of provider, which is why they need to be regulated because of their monopoly status. When you fly, you usually have a choice between lots of airlines. So there's nothing "public utility" about it whatsoever. Airports, on the other hand, are considered public infrastructure. There are also sometimes routes that are only served by one airline, which are sometimes regulated accordingly. But that isn't the general case, nor should it be.
- diebeforei485 1y agoTaxi companies, moving companies, and rideshare are all considered utilities and there are generally multiple choices of provider. Being a monopoly is not a requirement to be a utility.
- crazygringo 1y agoNone of those are generally considered to be public utilities. Public utilities include things like electricity, power, gas, sometimes telecoms. Being a monopoly is an inherent part of it.
- lvl155 1y agoI don’t follow your logic.
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- tiffanyh 1y agoIs volume-based discounts really that surprising?
- dbuxton 1y agoI find it weird that this is news and not: - That it's still way cheaper in most instances to book a return (especially where the "trip" straddles a weekend) rather than a one-way fare when travelling long haul - even if you just throw away the return flight. - That you can sometimes get access to totally different inventory by booking a package including accommodation, even if that accommodation is one night in a shared dormitory in a hostel (which you just don't go to). At least group discounts have a recognizable economic rationale. But in these examples you are getting a strict superset of the same SKU (OK, maybe the change rules might be a little tighter, but not in a way that's perceptible) for less money.
- akudha 1y agoIsn’t it a waste to book accommodation and not use it? If it is a popular place, maybe they’ll give it to walkins or something, but otherwise?
- mbrameld 1y agoIsn't it a waste to spend more for a flight when you could get the same flight for less if you also booked an accommodation you don't plan to use?
- akudha 1y agoI meant the accommodation going to waste (unused), which could be used by someone else. But yes, in terms of money, it sure is waste to pay more for the flight.
- xp84 1y agoDon’t forget they oversell flights anyway – it’s very likely someone else will use it even if you simply don’t show instead of canceling the ticket.
- mgraczyk 1y agoMy home is empty nearly 70% of the time. Surely that is more wasteful than not using a dorm bed once per year
- decimalenough 1y agoSingapore Airlines has been doing (used to do?) do this for ages: "GV2" was a Great Value fare for 2 people, "GV4" for 4. I also don't find this particularly outrageous. Lots of companies do volume discounts, and traveling as a family gets very expensive very fast. Finally, the fare bucket system used to price flights usually works the other way to penalize groups. If there's 3 seats left in the cheapest bucket, and you try to book for 4, you don't get 3 cheapest plus 1 more expensive, your entire group gets priced at the more expensive bucket.
- glitchc 1y agoI'm not sure if this is driven to incentivize having children, but the more general point of incentivizing children for the good of society is a valid one. A society that stops having kids (or importing them) will cease to be a society before too long.
- brm 1y agoOr, a society will just start having children again once the population gets small enough that having children becomes a more optimal decision or the supply of things that make having children optimal is increased...
- notepad0x90 1y agoit truly is unfortunate how society punishes you for being single. Insurance, tax, credit worthiness, even health care. i wonder how low birthrate societies like Japan or South Korea are like, is it worse to improve birthrates? or is it better because being single isn't an anomaly? More importantly, the number of single/solo people isn't even low in the US. If i had to ballpark it, at least a quarter of the population is like that. Lots of married people travel solo for business for example. Why aren't some airlines playing capitalism well by offering "business elite" flights where solo travelers get a loyalty discount and there are no children on the flight? Not for all destinations but at least popular ones like to vegas or NYC <-> LAX.
- phil21 1y agoAirlines already do that for business routes. Just in the other direction on pricing. Pre-Covid there were a couple airlines playing around with business class only flights from NY to LA. Solo business travelers are where the money is made. The rest of the seats tend to exist at cost or even below to fill up the plane. Airlines would be pretty foolish to try to lower margin on the least price sensitive class of traveler they service.
- proee 1y agoThis must be a new thing, because I've experienced the opposite. I needed to book 7 tickets, and the price was much higher than a single ticket. So I ended up adjusting the quantity and saw the price increase at around 4 tickets. So I ended up splitting the purchase into two transactions. However, after purchasing the first 4 tickets, the following price for single ticket was now slightly increased - so they were really playing some games or perhaps there was limited availability that was adjusting prices real-time.
- bluGill 1y agoThey are trying to charge as much as possible while filling the plane. If you take too many seats they need to up the price for the next person because someone needs to say too expensive and not fly on that plane
- Marazan 1y agoMany airlines operate on the following model. Imagine the plane has a hundred economy seats. The seats will be split into groups of 10, each group has it's own price. Group 1 seats cost 100 dollars Group 2 seats cost 110 dollars ... Group 10 seats are 350 dollars Your group order got the last seats in group N and the first seats in group N+1 This is where the myth of "booking late gets you the cheapest seats" comes from. If an early booking passenger cancels their Group 1 seat it becomes available to buy again and it is still a group 1 seat even if every other seat has been sold. So late cancellations can make cheap seats available again.
- anonymars 1y agoI had the same with just two tickets. We ended up booking them separately because it was cheaper. It was a modest difference but still.
- encoderer 1y agoIn other news, gas stations are selling individual cigarettes for $0.50 each
- stmw 1y agoHere is why I think these kinds of dynamic pricing practices are bad: it may be perfectly fair and legal, but it forces a non-negligible number of humanity to waste time and/or energy to figure out if it's happening, how to work around it if it is, and just generally waste human potential on something that should be a simple commodity.
- NegativeLatency 1y agoEspecially when your industry is so "critical" that it has repeatedly received bailouts from the government.
- _heimdall 1y agoAre you referring to bailouts for airline operators or Boeing?
- brian_herman 1y agoBoth
- _heimdall 1y agoBoeing is, for better or worse, pretty critical to our military. I'm not sure why they'd consider any one airline company critical though.
- stackskipton 1y agoBecause most airlines have become monopolies at their respective hubs so their loss would severely inconvenience a ton of people so government is encouraged to prop them up. For example, if Delta went under, Atlanta, Detroit and Salt Lake City would lose a total of 50%+ of their flights. That would be absolutely devastating.
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- ponector 1y agoI had a different experience with Ryanair. When you book solo, they show you price with a tooltip: "last 2 tickets for that price!" If you are going to book for 3 passengers they charge three of you with the next level, more expensive fare. But so far my favorite is they force you to buy seat if you travel with infant. You cannot select free random seat as their planes have rules to allow infants only on the seat near the window.
- FridayoLeary 1y agoI would just buy two seats and sort it out on the plane. It's not like they can separate you.
- WalterBright 1y agoCompanies give quantity discounts. Shocking!
- black6 1y agoAirlines should grow up and start charging by weight just like carriers do for every good except passengers (flat rate shipping boxes excluded.)
- account42 1y agoIf you also get seat sizes/pitches that match that price then I'm all for it.
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- mgraczyk 1y agoThis is good. Almost all price discrimination is good. Larger groups are more price sensitive. They should pay less because they have more buying power when they buy ahead.
- p1necone 1y agoI feel like people are suspending their reasoning in order to maximally shit on airlines in this thread (because yes, they do have a history of predatory pricing practices). The problem with this isn't the difference in prices - charging less for buying in bulk is a normal thing that's probably been done by merchants since the invention of money. The problem with this is the lack of communication. There's no advertisement of a bulk/family discount at any point during the pricing process, you just see a different price. That's the problem here, not the price difference itself.
- postalrat 1y agoAre these discounts compared to prices before the change or did they raise the price for individual travelers?
- SonOfLilit 1y agoAre grocery store discounts for six packs compared to prices before the change or did they raise the price of single items? Here they don't even advertise it as a discount, so there's no ethical problem with raising the individual traveler price by x and lowering the family price by y so that the total profit remains the same.
- MentatOnMelange 1y agoThere is absolutely an ethical problem with charging people different prices for the same exact product/service
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> There is absolutely an ethical problem with charging people different prices for the same exact product/service One, there isn’t. One party undercutting another for the same product is how competition generates consumer surplus. Two, it isn’t the same product. When I fly with my family, we check in together. We board together. I collect their docs on my phone and double check they have them on theirs. I turn down upgrades so I can sit with them. If there is a change, it takes one customer service agent maybe 10% longer to adjust everyone in bulk. I’m not incurring 4 or 5x the cost on the airline for 4 to 5x the revenue, this is why bulk discounting exists for everything. This isn’t an ethical problem. If it’s triggering an ethical system, that’s more damning for the system than for Delta. This is a communication and brand problem.
- obblekk 1y agothis might be a good thing if viewed from the opposite perspective: people with kids/elderly parents usually can't afford to pay as much per person as people traveling alone for fun/corporate travel.
- darkhorn 1y agoWhat is next? Charge iPhone users more than Android users? Charge users with email address on custom domain more than on free emails? Charge Jews more than Mexicans? You go to a bakery and he charges more because you wear a suit. You go to Europe, a guy in front of you buys a bread for €1, but same bread is €3 because you are tourist? Then you go to buy a toilet paper and same thing happens again because your ass is worth more?
- yarone 1y agoRemember Accompany.com and Mercata and other group-buying websites from the 90's dotcom boom? Time for those again?
- rabiescow 1y agoThe more people they can fill the flight with the more lucrative it is to fly that route, it makes perfect sense. Just like milk prices are more expensive the less you buy, per liter. Anyone being upset about this is just looking for reasons to be upset and maybe should go outside more and get a hobby.
- diebeforei485 1y agoWould this be allowed for international flights under IATA's fare rules?
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- bfrog 1y agoUS carriers are the absolute worst trying to squeeze every penny while the service has become worse. Flew through Japan on a Japanese carrier and the difference was insane. Japanese carrier was customer centric at every step.
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- 28304283409234 1y agoGood.
- account42 1y agoBusiness does volume discounts. News at 11.
- pksebben 1y agoThis reminds me of the story of Frank Lorenzo, union-busting airline exec who effectively fabricated the story of how airlines were all "struggling" as businesses to force government support of anti-union practices. It's a bit of a tangent, but the talk page on his wikipedia is one of the more fascinating fights between editors and paper doll accounts I've ever seen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_Lorenzo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Frank_Lorenzo