Originally Posted by
FedUp2
JALPak, I think if there ever was a poll amongst elite level OW flyers, this baggage issue would be somewhere in the top. Allowing extra baggage should not cost the airlines very much, especially if, as you say, there are few passengers likely to avail of the extra baggage allowance. The resulting gain in goodwill might well help OW gain / retain more customers.
Your moniker suggests some kind of affinity to JL - imagine a customer faced with a choice of JL & NH on a specific route. Having a higher baggage allowance, whether one needs it or not, would surely encourage one to book NH in this scenario (considering both carriers have very similar timetables)?
There's an overhead of setting up any benefit. I simply compare that to the actual value per frequent flyer.
Imagine a customer faced with a choice of OW vs *A. *A gets you there without much backtracking while OW requires you to fly an extra 5 hours or even worse OW don't fly there? All the extra baggage allowance is pointless if you simply can't get to your destination efficiently.
Sorry I don't follow your logic here, why would that encourage someone to fly a carrier simply because of the extra allowances even though they know they won't need that
If everything else is equal maybe, but in reality it's not. Services provided by JL and NH could be quite different.