Airline offers "All You Can Fly" Service

hook_dupin

hook_dupin

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Surf Air in CA is offering an "All You Can Fly" service. It's only $1650 a month.

http://travel.yahoo.com/blogs/compass/airline-launches-fly-monthly-fee-174813432.html

The few of these types of offerings I know of have been flops. Are they expecting this will be like a gym membership for some folks -paying monthly and not using the service? AA is still losing money from a "Lifetime Pass" deal it offered in the 80s. I hope they're right ...maybe this is "the future of flying." My quick thought is that they're going to be bent over the rail. $3K/month may be more close to real.
 
That is a really, really good deal when you consider the price of tickets for businessmen who make the SF-LA area commutes a few times a week. Not to mention less congested airports and no security hassles. Hopefully it works out, they seem like a cool little company.
 
ChasenSFO said:
That is a really, really good deal when you consider the price of tickets for businessmen who make the SF-LA area commutes a few times a week. Not to mention less congested airports and no security hassles. Hopefully it works out, they seem like a cool little company.
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Yeah... It stuck out to me as a hell of a deal. One that I think will prove too good to be true.
 
hook_dupin said:
Yeah... It stuck out to me as a hell of a deal. One that I think will prove too good to be true.
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Maybe they are just getting their initial customers in the door. If this operation wants to stay around, I foresee the monthly fee going up after a little while.
 
SpiraMirabilis said:
Jet Blue did this a while back too.

http://www.budgettravel.com/blog/jetblue-offers-an-all-you-can-fly-pass,10758/
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Yeah, I remember that. There, the promotion served as a marketing gimmick and not as the income basis for the whole airline. I think JetBlue underestimated how much people would take advantage of it.

Slate wrote a multi-part piece on the Jet Blue deal:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/...asochist_with_too_much_time_on_his_hands.html

My take-away was that Jet Blue essentially just gave away tickets to a bunch of travel-friendly hipsters and didn't get the "We're a fun, adventurous airline" message across. Needless to say, the promotion hasn't been back.
 
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