Airline Fares Rant
by Food Scales on Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 | 11 Comments
AHHH!! I’m so angry at airline fares and prices. This is silly… They taunt you with one fare, and by the time you click accept it has raised.
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@DasGregor For every dollar an airline takes in, they only make about 10 cents(some only make 6 cents). So they can’t afford to lower fares, they fluctuate with the costs associated with producing your product. And the reason that fare was so low was because they needed to fill that seat fast, because on some flights they lose money. They are responding to your concerns, by putting on crappy minimum wage pilots and lazy minimum wage flight attendants. Your cheapness will result in more crashes.
When you buy an airline ticket, there are different fare “buckets” or booking classes that shows up on your ticket: for example, it might say: Y, B,M, H, N, G, K, L, O, Q, S, T, U, V, W, or X, based on the restrictions associated with your fare (e.g. saturday night stay, refundability, upgradability, etc). On a given flight, a small number of seats are allocated to each booking class. Probably while you were putting all your info in, somebody bought the last ticket in the $99 fare bucket.
“The system is so complex that the problem of finding the cheapest airfare between two cities is considered mathematically unfathomable. According to a paper from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics provided by ITA, “the problem of finding the cheapest airfare from point A to point B is unsolvable.” “
If you stop at the layover, and you have a roundtrip ticket, they’ll cancel the rest of your flight.
@TheWashingtonEagle I did fail to address your theme. What happened was really slight of hand on the airline/website management’s part. We need more people like you expressing your concerns and outright disgust with things that are wrong with everyday life. You’re right. Thumbs up!
@TheWashingtonEagle Unfortunately, you completely missed my point or the purpose of my rant. In your attempt to come to the aid of the airline industry you completely fell off the track. In this rant, 4 years old I might add, I was seconds away from finalizing my trip for the family when suddenly the airlines web site stated that the fare I had just spent the last 15 minutes setting up was no longer available. Instead they wanted to charge me an arm more for the same flight!
Unfortunately your desire to end your family to Colorado for the price of shipping a UPS box, is costing the workers in the airline industry dearly. Pilots have taken a 40% pay cut and have lost their pensions. This on top of an average of $100K in student loan debt. The mentality that you want to fly somewhere for the same it would cost to bus there is ultimately leading to accidents in the airline industry due to underpaid pilots unable to stay at a hotel the night before their trip starts.
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That’s insane. They should have them regulated.
Yes, I’ve heard that it occurs quite regularly. A few months later my father-inlaw was buying tickets and it happened to him too. You just gotta watch out.
I agree with you, I’d be PISSED if that shit happened to me.