People vote with their dollars, many legs have multiple options and multiple seat options. Almost everyone goes with the cheapest option.
I've flow from NYC to Chicago $90 round trip. It's incredible how inexpensive flying as become.
I've flow from NYC to Chicago $90 round trip. It's incredible how inexpensive flying as become.
I see options to sort by price, by airline, by number of minutes in the air, or by number of transfers, but I've never seen the option to sort by seat pitch. Half the time, it's nearly impossible to even figure out what kind of aircraft it will be.
I choose by price because it's the most relevant of the limited and mostly useless options that we're given.
Personal space is a competitive advantage. Hotels get this. The website for the nearest hotel to me has a top-level "ROOMS" page, with photographs and square footage of every room. I will pay a little more because I know what I'm getting. With air travel, I have no way of knowing which flight will pack me in like a sardine, so I might as well save the money and spend it on a hot meal at the end to recover.
* not getting groped by the T.S.A.
* not having to book a flight a month in advance to get a good price
* paying less
* being treated like a human being
It bothers me that we tolerate various personal possessions (in this instance privacy) being taken away and then given back, generously (/s), for a small fee. I would rather be groped and spoken down to then hand more information/money over to another poorly-managed organization.
Moreover, the Airline-Security group has always been reactive rather than proactive. I don’t see how TSA pre-check prevents anything in the first place. What’s to stop someone from deciding at some point after the Pre-Check process that they want to create havoc on a flight? Nothing. Then we’ll have Super-Pre-Check, for only $190 and this time you “only have to” give a DNA swab. Sorry for the cynicism, etc, but I doubt I’m alone in calling the whole thing a facade.
Anyway, I forgot my initial point, but there’s my rant.
These flights went through what is now American's hub in Philly.
I thought, gee, I'd like to take my son to Philly but then I found they charged $400 for the flight from ITH to PHL.
When the pricing obviously is disjoint from the cost to provide the service, the airline industry just can't expect us to take anything they say about pricing and service seriously. It's just like it is with these pharmacy benefit managers.