Southwest ending overbooked flights
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JOEFRIDAY2
Well-Known Member
Not exactly the smartest move for gross and net revenue.
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
Considering they have to refund money, even if it's just in the form of vouchers, every time they have to bump someone, probably not all that much. It's not like every one of their flights was always oversold AND enough no-shows occurred to not need "re-accomodations."
tcco94
Future GTA VI Pilot
Soon paxs will demand they want peanuts back over pretzels and they want the full can, none of this ice and a cup bull crap. Facebook will share the posts, anger will fill, stocks will dive for 4-5 hours and before we know it paxs will control all the airline politics.
#BOYCOTT
#BOYCOTT
BigZ
Well-Known Member
Business changes the consumer, consumer changes the business
Don't blame it all on Joe and Jane, I doubt it the ticket prices went down when pretzels replaced peanuts
PS use the magic "can of" when answering the prompt for a drink and ye shall receive
Dphoenix
Love lasagna, hate mondays
Give me a break, most of the time as soon as you hit $1000 that seat is gone, and I can't see it making it over $1500 except on Xmas day...
It won't affect us, much. They'll sell to capacity instead.
Cptnchia
Dissatisfied Customer
T/O w/FSII
Well-Known Member
Look at all the professional economists here. Who would have thought?
tcco94
Future GTA VI Pilot
I was just being sarcastic....lol
But I do notice when I commute in uniform I almost always get the can
BigZ
Well-Known Member
Uniform invokes motherly instincts in FAs?But I do notice when I commute in uniform I almost always get the can
BigZ
Well-Known Member
You are correct, except the conditions changed and there is no reliable data on whether that will affect the consumers behavior and by how much
Hence Delta and United decide to see what happens and Southwest decides not to
mrivc211
Well-Known Member
haha, classic pilots. They're all cockpit airline CEO's
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
I've seen "real CEOs" that couldn't manage a string of Christmas lights and only got to where they were because they had good hair or their family was juiced in with the right people.
I don't think that's the pejorative that you think,
poser765
Well-Known Member
I don't know. I mean, yeah, I know they would sell to capacity, but the reason they overbook is on the assumption of either misconnects or no shows. Those would still happen. The plane has 100 seats and they sell 104 tickets. 4 people no show and the plane still departs with 100 buts in the seat. If they could only sell 100 seats and 4 people no show, that's 4 open seats for standby/nonrevs.
Cptnchia
Dissatisfied Customer
"Sorry, but we're payload optimized."
But don't be surprised when catering screws up (again) and you don't get it because they're trying to stretch everything. Or just order weird stuff that nobody else drinks... full can every time.