Europeans flying on holiday - hysterical !

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Now my friend who told me this, knows nothing about aviation but flies
a couple of times a year on holiday. Those who say that the average
passenger knows or cares nothing about the plane/airline/service and
just wants the cheapest havent met my friend and apparently a lot of
other paople on the plane were grumbling.

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Right - But if those passengers went on holidays again next year and
the option was a) a cheap charter with few services on an older but no
doubt perfectly safe plane or b) paying more money to fly on a carrier
with service they would no doubt pick the cheaper option "a" again and
again. People ALWAYS complain about lack of movies or food or leg
room, but have consistently shown that if push comes to shove they will
always reject that in favour of a cheaper fare.

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada


I think it depends on why you're traveling.

In my case, I fly 40-45 weekends a year on business and I'd KILL to have the
perks, the legroom, etc. It seems these days, if you are a single business
traveler, you are a pariah and are so far outside the air travel "norm" that
you just don't matter.

The airlines (at least here in the USA) all realize that their bread is no
longer buttered by business travel because of videoconferencing, email,
fractional jet use (for the really high class business folks...who used to
guarentee that all of first class had paid for their seats and didn't get
them via frequent flyer miles...), etc, so they only need to cater to the
lowest form of travelling life which is the person who goes somewhere once
every couple of years who either forgets or doesn't care what the level of
service is.

Wasn't it Midwest Express that started flying DC9s that were all first class
level service in the NorthEast corridor (NYC, DC, Boston)? Didn't they have
to beat the business flying customers back with a stick?

Jay Beckman
PP-ASEL (Road Warrior)
Chandler, AZ