Originally Posted by
ffsim
This argument comes up often, and honestly, I don't buy it. Consider the number of passengers AC carries (
35 million in 2013) and then figure out how many of those are spending $70k. Or even $35k as part of a couple. AC would be foolish to not *want*
antirealist's business, much like a Vegas casino not caring about a millionaire because they host a bunch of billionaires on a regular basis.
This is almost never framed properly around here. Of course they care about someone who spends 70K.
They have to make choices - in this case, looking on the population of 70K spenders, vs the population of large corporate spenders, they are trying to figure out who they can get more out of, and what are the costs/risks of defectors, across both those population groups.
It is not dumb to lose some big spenders if you more than make up for it by increased spend by another big spending group. We obviously have no ability to evaluate this question.
But the constant drumbeat that AC are idiots because they make choices that might decrease their competitiveness to some 70K spenders is tiresome/counter-productive.