Airlines Colluded to Ensure Onboard Food Would Be Awful
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Airlines Colluded to Ensure Onboard Food Would Be Awful
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#2I recall how much better the experience of flying British Airways was, notably the food and drinks. Too bad it was only once
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#3good airline food but at a higher ticket price is not what consumers actually choose to buy. They'd rather suffer and get a discount on the ticket. They merely complain about that suffering.
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#4Read an article about this a few years back that was title Vile High Club. Loved it so much I grabbed the domain.
It may have been this article: https://skift.com/2012/11/18/fda-finds-airlines-outside-cate...
Re: Airlines Colluded to Ensure Onboard Food Would Be Awful
#5good airline food but at a higher ticket price is not what consumers actually choose to buy. They'd rather suffer and get a discount on the ticket. They merely complain about that suffering.
Isn't the point that food in economy class is often worse than it needs to be for the cost, and food in first class is not good enough to justify the massively increased ticket price?
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#6Granted I generally fly business class on Delta and ANA (because long hauls in economy is miserable), I find the food is great given the context. YMMV.
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#7good airline food but at a higher ticket price is not what consumers actually choose to buy. They'd rather suffer and get a discount on the ticket. They merely complain about that suffering.
Charge $100 more for a ticket to get a slightly better sandwich, then claim the consumer chose the worse sandwich.
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#8good airline food but at a higher ticket price is not what consumers actually choose to buy. They'd rather suffer and get a discount on the ticket. They merely complain about that suffering.
Airline upgrades is a market for lemons. Even if you, say, buy an upgraded seat you may get sat next to a big guy or a rowdy child and then your seat sucks. Instead you have to pay much more (sometimes multiple times a main-cabin ticket) for the cabins up front and even then you might have to set next to a drunk businessman.
If you complain you will get told there's nothing that can be done. Even if you get sat in a seat soiled with vomit or poop[1][2]. And of course you may get bumped from your flight, potentially violently[3] or have it delayed, rerouted or cancelled.
So it's a market for lemons, you buy the cheapest ticket you can since the experience is likely to suck no matter what you do, and you try to endure it.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/09/05/air-canada-... [2] https://www.newsweek.com/delta-passenger-forced-sit-seat-cov... [3] https://qz.com/954791/everything-that-went-wrong-in-uniteds-...
Re: Airlines Colluded to Ensure Onboard Food Would Be Awful
#9Read an article about this a few years back that was title Vile High Club. Loved it so much I grabbed the domain. It may have been this article: https://skift.com/2012/11/18/fda-finds-airlines-outside-cate...
good name. goes with all sorts of possibilities. feature jenkum and mad dog 20/20 and airline food and it all fits together thematically.
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#10Granted I generally fly business class on Delta and ANA (because long hauls in economy is miserable), I find the food is great given the context. YMMV.
Same, meals in Delta One on both transatlantic and NorthSouth America routes are actually something I look forward to on my trips—those short ribs are scrumptious! Domestic first can be hit or miss, mostly miss because I miss lunch time flights (haha), but they too also been mostly acceptable.
If I anticipate something not great, I’ll stow away some shake shack.