Airline Pricing Strategies

Air travel isn’t always a luxury expense. Some people can’t afford anything except the cheapest ticket. It’s rather dismissive to blame them instead of the large airline companies who want to make a profit. Just because you can buy a more expensive ticket for better seating doesn’t mean everyone can.

If the airline doesn't want people doing this then stop doing ridiculous pricing.

The airlines are losing money by having passengers circumvent the price discrimination.

They're playing extreme shenanigans with the ticket price, to segment the pricing as much as possible. This à la carte approach has side effects - in particular, it strongly incentivizes people flying on their own account (as opposed to those flying on company money) to try and get out of as many of the menu items as possible. Traveling with a ridiculously inconvenient set of oversized carry-ons to avoid checked luggage fee is a standard practice at this point. Airlines should be responsibl

I guess the airlines want to monetize all they can... so probably not.

Airline customers don't want pay more for tickets, its not like airlines are swimming in money to take that on themselves.

I've always thought it was price discrimination, so the people who really want a cheap flight can put up with less bags instead of not flying at all

Passengers are choosing to be treated like cattle, by aggressively bargain hunting for the lowest available sticker price.You have lots of options to get better service - economy plus, priority boarding, buying food onboard that you no longer get by default. And of course upgrading to business class.All these things cost more and you could either pay for it by default on every ticket like in the old days, or you can purchase them separately. Consumer demand has overwhelmingly indicated a p

Yeah. Passengers pick tickets based on sticker price, often/usually through price search engines. Connections and travel time are also factors.Baggage isn't. Leg-room isn't. Food isn't. Even "the most convenient airport" is often not important to passengers' purchasing decisions.It's hard to blame the airlines when they're just responding to incentives the passengers are giving them. And tickets are cheap, right? Can't complain too m

Even in airfare, the economy seat costs more than the marginal cost.