Washington Post: More classes, more air rage
Jan 25, 2017, 10:23 am
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Washington Post: More classes, more air rage
Air rage is more common when there are more classes in a plane. Apparently even the presence of a first-class cabin sets economy passengers off.
What's more, air rage is more common when passengers pass through a different cabin while boarding - even if it's F passengers passing through the main cabin.
Full article in the Washington Post here.
What's more, air rage is more common when passengers pass through a different cabin while boarding - even if it's F passengers passing through the main cabin.
Full article in the Washington Post here.
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Agree. Besides, charters are a whole separate issue. Dynamics within a charter group, especially if it's going to/from an athletic event or a potentially rowdy vacation spot, encourage some behaviors that are characterized as "air rage" if they happen on an plane but would be called hooliganism if they took place on the ground.
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https://www.economist.com/blogs/gull...nvy-30000-feet
Another article, probably of the same study.
I think the other thing I've heard is that it's not enough to be able to sit in premium class. They enjoy the experience more because other passengers are not as comfortable.
IOW, if all the seats in the plane were business or first class, the passengers wouldn't enjoy it as much as sitting in premium class on multi-cabin planes.
Another article, probably of the same study.
I think the other thing I've heard is that it's not enough to be able to sit in premium class. They enjoy the experience more because other passengers are not as comfortable.
IOW, if all the seats in the plane were business or first class, the passengers wouldn't enjoy it as much as sitting in premium class on multi-cabin planes.
Jun 8, 2018, 10:08 am
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Jules Dupuit on why there are classes of travel
"They have no bread? Let them eat cake!"
Always works out well.
It is not because of the few thousand francs which would have to be spent to put a roof over the third-class carriage or to upholster the third-class seats that some company or other has open carriages with wooden benches … What the company is trying to do is prevent the passengers who can pay the second-class fare from traveling third class; it hits the poor, not because it wants to hurt them, but to frighten the rich … And it is again for the same reason that the companies, having proved almost cruel to the third-class passengers and mean to the second-class ones, become lavish in dealing with first-class customers. Having refused the poor what is necessary, they give the rich what is superfluous.
Always works out well.