Won't Pay for Perks (was Europeans flying on holiday - hysterical !)

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:34:43 -0400, nobody wrote:

wrote:

Not at all - Economics have shown again and again that people are not
willing to pay for perks on flights.

Nop, those are slanted "surveys" to help justify decisions to cut service.

If you have a Southwet flight between A and B which costs $300 return
when purchased last minute, and a United flights which costs $1500 for
return, purchased last minute, you can draw many conclusions:

Yes, you can say that people are most likely to choose the "no service"
Southwest because it is cheaper than United.
It is not a false statement.

However, they choose it because the price difference between legacy
ticket prices and low cost ticket prices is so big that people are
willing to compromise on service.

Consider that a good meal costs perhaps $10 to provide. That doesn't
justify the $1200 price difference.

You'd have to find markets where you have a full service carrier
competiting against a no-service carrier and price differences are
exactly the value of the services you are or are not getting. Then, you
could judge whether people are eally choosing to save $10 to be treated
like cattle instead of paying the extra $10 and having a more enjoyable flight.

And also consider that a joyful staff on a no-service airline can make
up for bad attitude old FAs on the full service airline.

So drawing the conclusions that people are not willing to pay for
service is wrong. What is right is that people are not willing to pay
exhorbitant ticket prices because that isn't worth the value of extra
services they may be getting.
since when did Southwest and their operational standads apply to the
countries of the European Union?