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Airlines Giveth And Airlines Taketh Away. American Backs Off Its Dumb 29-Inch Plan, But Not By Much
Late Tuesday American Airlines president Robert Isom sent a note to all ba-jillion million members of American’s once-meaningful frequent fliers program, AAdvantage, telling them the “good news.” American will not be cutting the leg room in the last three rows of its new Boeing 737 Max-8 aircraft (the first four of 100 on order will join the fleet this fall) to a torturously narrow 29 inches of pitch. (www.forbes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The message to the budget minded passenger is "you're not paying enough for the privilege of boarding our aircraft. So screw you"
Mike,
I don't think airline CEO's fly commercial coach. If they do it is certainly first or business class. More likely they have their own biz jets.
I don't think airline CEO's fly commercial coach. If they do it is certainly first or business class. More likely they have their own biz jets.
john,you are correct..the majority of large corporations have private jets belonging to or leased specifically to a corporation..this allows them to travel at short notice to any location,and have meetings while on board..they generally do not fly commercial at all..
Airlines simply do not care if you or I decide not to fly, because there are ten others who do want to and who will tolerate whatever form of passenger abuse the airline thinks it can get away with in the name of profits. And it's only going to continue to get worse until/unless a regulatory body steps up to the plate and tells then, "No." Personally, I'd LOVE to see a hub city make an end run past the feds and regulate minimum seat pitch and a few other parameters in order to use their airport facilities. Never happen though, and the federal courts would slap 'em down, but boy what fun it would be for a week or two!
So under your plan, men would pay more on average than women because their weight is greater than women's. Good luck with that.
You drive across the country ? - Couldnt do my job and have a life, I won't drive 5 hours to Phoenix or 3 to Vegas !
If these airlines want to make money on people, how about charging by body and luggage weight and give us back a humane amount of seat space and knee room??