I just wonder what the goal of this commenter or the paper was. Because it's business 101. You don't sell shit that isn't going to make you money somehow.
Yes I know what a loss leader is. It has to recoup its costs somehow. And according to this paper if first class is the loss leader, at those rates, airlines would literally never be able to make money. They're alleging that airlines are pissing away in some cases orders of magnitude greater costs on certain sectors of the flight budget breakdown. You can't do that and expect to run a business and I'm not even a fuckin C suite knob, just a guy who has to balance his own P&Ls.
I have a theory. The author can't afford first class and suffers from some entitlement complex where "the airlines are wrong" rather than recognizing his position on the ladder.
This right here lol. Can't deny it feels a tiny bit classist, but I also can't lie and say the thought didn't cross my mind, that's why my first comment I established I grew up firmly middle class flying economy and thus far in life I've climbed to economy plus so there's certainly bits of flying I don't understand but I have an internet connection and the ability to click some links and think critically for just long enough for the brain to start getting hurty
Same flying background, too. This guy's sitting next to us in PE and being all pissy about it, where I'm pretty satisfied just not sitting in the middle.
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u/ArcanePyroblast 4d ago
I just wonder what the goal of this commenter or the paper was. Because it's business 101. You don't sell shit that isn't going to make you money somehow.
Yes I know what a loss leader is. It has to recoup its costs somehow. And according to this paper if first class is the loss leader, at those rates, airlines would literally never be able to make money. They're alleging that airlines are pissing away in some cases orders of magnitude greater costs on certain sectors of the flight budget breakdown. You can't do that and expect to run a business and I'm not even a fuckin C suite knob, just a guy who has to balance his own P&Ls.