Knowing that group N passengers may be forced to check their bags, the pricing to put yourself in group N - 1 is your “calculated misery”. Repeat across other airline convenience fees like seating.
Did your region pass laws to the effect of "foreign companies, do all this stuff to give our people special treatment or you can't serve them," only for Surprised Pikachu to make an appearance when many companies have said "OK, we'll go with option two, you're not as special and important as you think"? Laws have consequences.
Don't know the OP's region, but my region, Europe passed a consumer protection law, that says basically that we must be able to opt out of tracking and automated profiling, if we choose so, without disruption to the service.
Laws have consequences, but without consumer protection laws, the consumers are be walked over by the corporations every time, everywhere.
This does not merely apply to Airlines. Spotify inserts annoying pay for Spotify ads that are almost purposely indented to make the listener uncomfortable.
To where? Do you really strive for the Soviet air travel experience where people often had to sleep in the airports on their bags? That was due to over-demand of tickets at the existing price point.
Communist air travel have been tried, so it's not like you can pass your random dreams as it.
I’ve slept on my bags in airports plenty of times in the United States.
But it’s crazy that you’re complaining about such a low price that so many more people can travel more freely that they’re willing to be uncomfortable to save money when currently private ownership is making us uncomfortable during the traveling and before traveling as well.
When capitalists limit the supply that increases prices and increases profits. When socialist lower prices that increases the supply and decreases of prices because there’s no need for profit.
Many capitalistic countries do not have that. Everywhere I flew the order of boarding was "whatever". This was even when flying out of USA on non-US airlines.
Do you know why they cherry picked a transatlantic flight? Because they were so much more expensive in the 1960s. flying from New York to California could run anywhere from $50-$100. And that’s pretty much keeping in line with inflation and we’re getting a lot less.
>The idea was first distilled in this way back in 2014 by Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu for the New Yorker.
>“Here’s the thing: in order for fees to work, there needs be something worth paying to avoid. That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as “calculated misery.” Basic service, without fees, must be sufficiently degraded in order to make people want to pay to escape it,” Wu writes. “And that’s where the suffering begins.”
>Wu explains that under calculated misery, services or features that were once expected (think of leg room) are made worsened (leg room is reduced as rows are moved closer together). Want a little more leg room? You’ll likely need to upgrade your airfare to business or first class or even ordinary coach seats with added leg room.
I’m not sure I agree with the premise. Given the examples in the article, seat space is not limited just to upsell customers. Smaller seats means more fares. Similarly, priority boarding became a thing when airlines started charging $40 for checked bags, and thus overhead space became a coveted commodity. There is surely a sweet spot, however, where upselling is valuable (that is, the marginal price of an upgrade is a lot higher than the marginal cost for the airline).
I can't help but wonder what's next, and in what ways they will attempt to squeeze passengers more. Charging more for window/aisle, starting to play adverts over the speakers.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 43.2 ms ] threadLaws have consequences, but without consumer protection laws, the consumers are be walked over by the corporations every time, everywhere.
Communist air travel have been tried, so it's not like you can pass your random dreams as it.
But it’s crazy that you’re complaining about such a low price that so many more people can travel more freely that they’re willing to be uncomfortable to save money when currently private ownership is making us uncomfortable during the traveling and before traveling as well.
When capitalists limit the supply that increases prices and increases profits. When socialist lower prices that increases the supply and decreases of prices because there’s no need for profit.
Failing that - regulation.
' Nothing legal implied
>“Here’s the thing: in order for fees to work, there needs be something worth paying to avoid. That necessitates, at some level, a strategy that can be described as “calculated misery.” Basic service, without fees, must be sufficiently degraded in order to make people want to pay to escape it,” Wu writes. “And that’s where the suffering begins.”
>Wu explains that under calculated misery, services or features that were once expected (think of leg room) are made worsened (leg room is reduced as rows are moved closer together). Want a little more leg room? You’ll likely need to upgrade your airfare to business or first class or even ordinary coach seats with added leg room.
Business in a nutshell.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNxbc1o2KLU
They already do sometimes, when they have the flight attendants pimp their credit cards.