Originally Posted by
joshua362
Your theory only works in perfect competition which there is not in the airline industry (and not in just about every other industry). Too many mergers and the constant pressure to please Wall Street with double digit growth necessitates any remaining players to move in lock step, raise prices well above "inflation" and sneakily shrink or remove services "shrinkflation".
Perhaps the FA's are annoyed about being the policeman of assigned seating, not sharing in the obviously new revenue, are pissed about the new culture and are "working to rules" in silent protest (e.g. sit in your assigned seat and shut up)?
And how does that serve the WN forum ? What does WN have to do with it ? Airline mergers have been approved over the past decades by both parties and I guess that is a topic for a different forum and not just WN specific.
Per my understanding, WN FA's like passengers to sit in their seats and not move because the next thing you know folks will start moving all over and it can then become a circus which they dont wanna deal with especially as the WN fliers are used to 50 years of open seating. Its a change after 50 years and so I guess passengers need some time to adjust to. And if assigned seating is causing WN to loss revenue and market share, then I am assuming they will re-evaluate but as it looks now, open seating is a thing of the past and gone forever. They need to tweak and keep improving the assigned seating model now and work on eliminating any passenger complaints.