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> My point is that that is the service you are getting from regional/express airlines these days. But it's unnecessarily implemented in a costly, inefficient,
by ceejayoz 2mo ago
> My point is that that is the service you are getting from regional/express airlines these days.
But it's unnecessarily implemented in a costly, inefficient, annoying way that makes the entire experience worse to no one's benefit.
- jameshart 2mo agoSee original post, I guess? A lot of the constraints in how airlines can market service levels are imposed by the ticketing aggregation standards and how fares show up in searches. There are also issues with creating differences in luggage standards between regional and long haul flights because of through ticketing. It’s probably more complicated than it looks from the outside, and all falls into the same problem of overall air travel inscrutability caused by the ‘it makes sense to the people who are in it but looks Byzantine from outside’ problems the original article here is complaining about.
- ceejayoz 2mo agoI tend to doubt it's more complicated than it looks. It's a way to make more money off people for worse service, with the externalities going on people who can't do anything about it.
- Gud 2mo agoTypically they allow you to check it in regularly on fully booked flights. The airlines even prefer it. Source: I fly circa 50 times a year.