It's to avoid the issue with fats. More weight = more fuel = more weight = more fuel = more money = more wear + tear = more maintenance/repair fees. And the more needlessly complex and confusing the system is for the end-user, the easier it is to fleece them for all they are worth. A typical jewish tactic.
Something that would make sense would be a price per pound model, with a lower and upper limit. You pay a base rate for the flight, which accounts for it's distance/difficulty, with an addition based upon your weight + baggage (up to a certain limit). Once the aircraft hits safety limits that's it, flight is full.
If you need more, you need to make special accommodations, which I'm sure is going to cost a bit more. Or the airline could have special accommodation flights once a day or week or whatever makes sense.
There's a weight limit to each aircraft as well, and I'm sure the airlines totally follow that. They also have safety limits for flight times of certain gear and components, pilots, and so on. Some aircraft, flight conditions, and landing areas require special training, experience, and components to account for them. And some are just plain more dangerous. So that would have to go into the base price of a flight, just to simplify things for the end-user.
Well. The example in the article, I don’t remember the numbers. But you fly from NY to Orlando is $300 if you fly from NY to Orlando to Dallas is $150. That makes no sense, you go twice as far with half the cost. That costs twice the fuel, twice the maintenance, twice the crew. Makes no sense.
Nothing surprising; businesses only need to make a profit on all customers, so some can subsidize others. They can charge more for last-minute flights, or routes often traveled by people with more money. If they close this loophole, it will probably mean more expensive flights to boring cities, or stopovers in uninteresting cities.
American Airlines has said that when a customer doesn’t fly all of the segments on their itinerary, it can lead to operational problems with checked bags and prevent other customers from booking a seat when they might have an urgent need to travel.
The customer has the seat reserved, they're just not on that seat (they decided to let their invisible self ride instead). How can that be a problem for the airline?
If that's a problem for the airline then their priority when you miss a connecting flight due to the plane being delayed should be them issueing you a new ticket or hotel and food vouchers.
But like being charged twice on your credit card. It never works in reverse.
[ + ] Tallest_Skil
[ - ] Tallest_Skil 4 points 5 monthsDec 2, 2024 10:59:52 ago (+4/-0)
The customer did nothing wrong. This is the fault of the airline. Kill everyone responsible for this pricing and the problem goes away.
[ + ] ilikeskittles
[ - ] ilikeskittles 1 point 4 monthsDec 2, 2024 14:29:04 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] PotatoWhisperer2
[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 1 point 4 monthsDec 2, 2024 15:19:03 ago (+1/-0)
Something that would make sense would be a price per pound model, with a lower and upper limit. You pay a base rate for the flight, which accounts for it's distance/difficulty, with an addition based upon your weight + baggage (up to a certain limit). Once the aircraft hits safety limits that's it, flight is full.
If you need more, you need to make special accommodations, which I'm sure is going to cost a bit more. Or the airline could have special accommodation flights once a day or week or whatever makes sense.
There's a weight limit to each aircraft as well, and I'm sure the airlines totally follow that. They also have safety limits for flight times of certain gear and components, pilots, and so on. Some aircraft, flight conditions, and landing areas require special training, experience, and components to account for them. And some are just plain more dangerous. So that would have to go into the base price of a flight, just to simplify things for the end-user.
[ + ] ilikeskittles
[ - ] ilikeskittles 0 points 4 monthsDec 4, 2024 20:45:48 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] Prairie
[ - ] Prairie 0 points 4 monthsDec 2, 2024 18:09:34 ago (+0/-0)
The customer has the seat reserved, they're just not on that seat (they decided to let their invisible self ride instead). How can that be a problem for the airline?
[ + ] Clubberlang
[ - ] Clubberlang [op] 1 point 4 monthsDec 4, 2024 13:49:15 ago (+1/-0)
If that's a problem for the airline then their priority when you miss a connecting flight due to the plane being delayed should be them issueing you a new ticket or hotel and food vouchers.
But like being charged twice on your credit card. It never works in reverse.
[ + ] CoronaHoax
[ - ] CoronaHoax 0 points 5 monthsDec 2, 2024 10:56:32 ago (+0/-0)