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isn't it kind of just the airline's fault for having a ticket price system in which it's cheaper to buy a ticket from A to B to C than just a 'direct flight' from A to B? I mean for real 'hidden city' tickets shouldn't even be a thing. TwoStepBoog posted:
it's the same loving plane AHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH what the actual gently caress Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Dec 31, 2014 |
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Well... I understand hub and spoke and how it applies to logistics and stuff but it still makes no loving sense at all as applied to why a ticket is $600 but the exact same seat on the same plane is now $150 if you're taking 2 flights. Like it makes sense if it is waaay cheaper to take a flight from a hub or between two hubs but it's literally spoke to hub: $700 , spoke to hub to spoke: $180 idk maybe I'm rusty on my business/econ classes though. Darth123123 posted:What the market will bear. BTc really can solve this. yeah that's probably the real reason. 'because we can and people pay for it!' but idk if they can base a lawsuit off of someone exploiting their 'glitch' with a website so to speak.
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icantfindaname posted:you realize airliners are possibly the single least profitable industry on earth and have as a collective business not made a single penny over the last 100 years, instead being subsidized by governments as prestige projects? a good reason for nationalization imo since that's what government run enterprise is basically for filling a need that generates little or no profit
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Dec 31, 2014 04:35
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pointing out stupid poo poo and laughing at it is now a goonrage
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Dec 31, 2014 07:26
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idk you guys are kind of scrambling over yourselves to cry foul about government subsidies propping up unprofitable industries and forgetting the insane capital investment it requires to start an airline that can compete with established airlines and really low profits (if any) that can be attained by doing so I think it's fine if we want to prop up an airline recognizing that it is important to have functioning airlines with well maintained equipment and such, but as a consequence the airlines have to follow government regulation and not be so weird with their pricing. For what it's worth I've flown a lot of flights and I think air travel is way better than it used to be in terms of customer service and quality of the actual flight. I agree that our government is totally failing to represent the interest of the citizens though it's pretty ridiculous. It wouldn't be so much of an issue if the FAA or something stepped in and said 'hey stop being dickbags or we'll revoke all your flight charters and poo poo (or whatever) and give them to your competitor' but lol.
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Dec 31, 2014 07:54
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lol if you don't have your own private jet with a couple pilots and a sexy stewardess on salary
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Dec 31, 2014 08:11
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who cares it costs $10k an hour to fly this thing you think I give a poo poo about money you know how many loving poors I kill every year son
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Dec 31, 2014 08:17
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The Taint Reaper posted:I kind of wish the government would stop propping up the airlines and would just let them fend for themselves. but then we would have something much worse probably
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Dec 31, 2014 09:25
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The Taint Reaper posted:We could also have something better huge capital investment into a business with very little expectation of profit sounds like something that is going to produce great results in a market
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Dec 31, 2014 09:35
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The Taint Reaper posted:If this was the case all forms of privately owned and/or personal travel would be null and void. But you have entire companies based on giving tours on busses that are run better than airlines. you're comparing cars and buses to jet airplanes? quote:The only part of air travel that is run well are the Air Traffic Controllers. Everything else is huge garbage that could use major improvements. sure but I don't think less government involvement is going to result in that
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Dec 31, 2014 09:48
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The Taint Reaper posted:I had a 10 hour flight and the meals they serve you aren't even worthy of being served in a prison. i've been on many transatlantic flights and i've also been served a meal in jail the plane food is better by leaps and bounds
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Jan 1, 2015 08:27
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Surprisingly, being diplomatic works really well versus being a belligerent rear end in a top hat in most situations in general.
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idk I had a job where I dealt with customers and you can usually tell people that are genuinely nice and trying to work out a problem and someone who is just being fake nice with the rage simmering just below the surface
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