US Flights are Too Cheap
Jul 1, 2013, 1:56 pm
#19
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Jul 1, 2013, 2:01 pm
#20
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Premium only airlines or flights have come and gone, and mostly unprofitable. Two premium only services I know of remain on legacy airlines, and then there is private.
Jul 1, 2013, 2:46 pm
#23
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on Delta... Economy Plus on United...
Personally, I would not call it a happy medium but rather semi-misery
medium.
Jul 1, 2013, 3:13 pm
#24
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Flying is too cheap. It's turned American flights into cattle-class headache
excursions.
One should not in 2013 be able to fly from LA to NYC and back for $320.
That's the same price it was in 1988--I remember-- that's the first time
I made the trip.
$600 is a reasonable price for a trip across the continent, and back.
Flight attendants are upset and uncooperative, pilots too, airport staff, all underpaid. What do you expect when you pay them peanuts?
Everything else has gone up in price (gas quadrupled) so flights need to as well.
We can't have our cake (ultra cheap fares) and eat it (good service and leg room) too.
excursions.
One should not in 2013 be able to fly from LA to NYC and back for $320.
That's the same price it was in 1988--I remember-- that's the first time
I made the trip.
$600 is a reasonable price for a trip across the continent, and back.
Flight attendants are upset and uncooperative, pilots too, airport staff, all underpaid. What do you expect when you pay them peanuts?
Everything else has gone up in price (gas quadrupled) so flights need to as well.
We can't have our cake (ultra cheap fares) and eat it (good service and leg room) too.
Jul 1, 2013, 5:19 pm
#26
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Those are some remarkable $320 RT cross country fares you're seeing. I fly SFO>JFK 6+ times a year and my average spend is more like $400-500. If only I could convince my family to celebrate Xmas at a more affordable time!.
Jul 1, 2013, 6:18 pm
#27
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Flying is too cheap. It's turned American flights into cattle-class headache
excursions.
One should not in 2013 be able to fly from LA to NYC and back for $320.
That's the same price it was in 1988--I remember-- that's the first time
I made the trip.
$600 is a reasonable price for a trip across the continent, and back.
Flight attendants are upset and uncooperative, pilots too, airport staff, all underpaid. What do you expect when you pay them peanuts?
Everything else has gone up in price (gas quadrupled) so flights need to as well.
We can't have our cake (ultra cheap fares) and eat it (good service and leg room) too.
excursions.
One should not in 2013 be able to fly from LA to NYC and back for $320.
That's the same price it was in 1988--I remember-- that's the first time
I made the trip.
$600 is a reasonable price for a trip across the continent, and back.
Flight attendants are upset and uncooperative, pilots too, airport staff, all underpaid. What do you expect when you pay them peanuts?
Everything else has gone up in price (gas quadrupled) so flights need to as well.
We can't have our cake (ultra cheap fares) and eat it (good service and leg room) too.
Jul 1, 2013, 6:45 pm
#28
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/eco...19260862?mt=11
Jul 2, 2013, 9:36 am
#30
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Your argument is that oligopoly will improve service? What industry? Where? When? I'll have a lot better success arguing that oligopoly would increase executive compensation, unionized wages, and (maybe) shareholder returns.
Last edited by 3Cforme; Jul 2, 2013 at 9:42 am