Originally Posted by
Deltahater
I think it is really irrelevant what I think, but yes, why wouldn't they?
Aunt Lucy who flies every 5 years to Paris is not really a customer that AA cherishes. But the $50 they get from 80% of the pax, they do cherish
Let me try and figure this out, I am NOT an MBA
DL lost ~$800m in Q1
Charging $50 for a 2nd bag International (what ever that is) will bring in $100m per year (or $25m per quarter). This will solve the airlines financial issues??????
So here is the real ?, if non airline specific loyal people buy on lowest all in price, and NOT everyone matches the $50 DL fee ($100 RT), they will loose XXXX in revenue by not selling the $500-$2000 ticket).
If they do not get matched from their major Internaltional Competition (AF,AC, BA,KL,LH,JL,ANA,KE ect) they will loose more revenue they they take in.
Look what happened when USless air charged $2 for a can of soda.