BA discriminates solo travelers!
Jul 4, 2015, 11:11 pm
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Jul 4, 2015, 11:18 pm
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I don't get why the OP is so riled up over a very natural thing in economics - price discrimination - as people have mentioned.
It's not the first time BA does this, anyway. It's common on this thread to get cheaper tickets for uhm DUB-LHR-SIN/whatevs versus LHR-SIN, although you're technically flying one less segment, but still you get charged extra.
What I find odd is what makes OP so insistent on getting himself to pay more when there's a cheaper option. Or complain that it is unfair that he pays more for solo without noticing it can be read in the way that couples just get a, well, discount.
It's not the first time BA does this, anyway. It's common on this thread to get cheaper tickets for uhm DUB-LHR-SIN/whatevs versus LHR-SIN, although you're technically flying one less segment, but still you get charged extra.
What I find odd is what makes OP so insistent on getting himself to pay more when there's a cheaper option. Or complain that it is unfair that he pays more for solo without noticing it can be read in the way that couples just get a, well, discount.
Jul 4, 2015, 11:19 pm
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As single travellers, discrimination is rife. If I want to travel and do things, I have no choice but to get on with it. Hotels. Cruise lines. Trains (sleepers). etc.
I have sailed to New York several times and as a solo passenger, I pay 175% or 200% of the fare, depending on class of travel, for the same service.
Amtrak in the US. Price to upgrade to a sleeper compartment is for 1 or 2 people. You get meals included in that, but I only get to eat one breakfast, lunch and dinner, not two at each sitting…
I have just booked a hotel in Brussels for a conference, I am paying the same for a double room as a single person as I would if I were sharing with someone else.
I don't see the point in getting so angry about it.
I have sailed to New York several times and as a solo passenger, I pay 175% or 200% of the fare, depending on class of travel, for the same service.
Amtrak in the US. Price to upgrade to a sleeper compartment is for 1 or 2 people. You get meals included in that, but I only get to eat one breakfast, lunch and dinner, not two at each sitting…
I have just booked a hotel in Brussels for a conference, I am paying the same for a double room as a single person as I would if I were sharing with someone else.
I don't see the point in getting so angry about it.
Jul 4, 2015, 11:22 pm
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Yes, you can.
And calm down! Helsinki is good, but it's not so good you need to have a tantrum about it.
Jul 4, 2015, 11:26 pm
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Jul 4, 2015, 11:55 pm
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A different two versus one anomaly shows up regularly at my local Waitrose. Buy one reduced punnet of strawberries for Ł1, buy two of them for -50p.
Not quite the same thing, but computers and pricing algorithms occasionally churn out nonsense.
Not sure why Waitrose haven't corrected their system, perhaps not enough customers have complained about it ....
Not quite the same thing, but computers and pricing algorithms occasionally churn out nonsense.
Not sure why Waitrose haven't corrected their system, perhaps not enough customers have complained about it ....
Jul 5, 2015, 12:00 am
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A different two versus one anomaly shows up regularly at my local Waitrose. Buy one reduced punnet of strawberries for Ł1, buy two of them for -50p.
Not quite the same thing, but computers and pricing algorithms occasionally churn out nonsense.
Not sure why Waitrose haven't corrected their system, perhaps not enough customers have complained about it ....
Not quite the same thing, but computers and pricing algorithms occasionally churn out nonsense.
Not sure why Waitrose haven't corrected their system, perhaps not enough customers have complained about it ....
That's a nice word; never knew there was a special moniker for those little baskets.
Jul 5, 2015, 12:48 am
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I think there is a need to chill over the 'solo traveller discrimination' bit. I've seen non-solo traveller discrimination - why should one hotel room cost more just because there are two of you, even if you share the same bed, for instance?
If we want to interpret things in the worst possible light, we can make ourselves miserable and get wound up.
If we want to make the most of life, there are things that are not very productive to get wound up about.
If we want to find a way to get around it, we can.
Is it a rather English word? I've always said "punnet" of strawberries etc but I have been given funny look in non-English English speaking countries.
If we want to interpret things in the worst possible light, we can make ourselves miserable and get wound up.
If we want to make the most of life, there are things that are not very productive to get wound up about.
If we want to find a way to get around it, we can.
Is it a rather English word? I've always said "punnet" of strawberries etc but I have been given funny look in non-English English speaking countries.
Jul 5, 2015, 1:01 am
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It's much more efficient than the American word: "those-little-baskets-strawberries-and-sometimes-other-berries-come-in."
I'll enjoy using it to confound fruit stand owners across the country.
Jul 5, 2015, 1:14 am
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I always thought that the single supplement was quite common with tour operators. It seems BA is doing the same thing. Not that I have ever agreed with this industry policy nor really understood it for that matter.
Best of luck to the OP.
H
Best of luck to the OP.
H
Jul 5, 2015, 1:25 am
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The OP needs to chill...
Every holiday brochure i have ever picked up has those words at the bottom. The best way I found to avoid them is to book Hotel and Flights seperate but at the same time with a (competent) TA who is ATOL protected, OK you pay a wee bit more, but not as much as the single supplement, and your protected, or use a singles only TA.
Jul 5, 2015, 1:27 am
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One is for 1 airplane seat and 1 hotel room whilst the other is for 2 airplane seats and 1 hotel room.
Something tells me BA is safe from your legal advances on this one, but do let us know how it goes!!
You might want to be nicer to the judge than you have been to the people who have replied to your thread as you might otherwise find your case being dismissed rather more quickly than you would like (if indeed it gets anywhere in the first place, something I highly doubt)
Jul 5, 2015, 1:31 am
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Is this really a serious thread, or a spoof?
Jul 5, 2015, 1:36 am
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In the case where the single supplement is higher than paying for 2 people, seems rather odd - but there is nothing illegal in what BA holidays is doing. If it wants to charge more for a solo passenger , it can
perhaps the Op could look at a differernt operator or just book flights and hotels separately
Jul 5, 2015, 1:44 am
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