Airline Economics
I will never understand airline economics. I just found out about a marketing pitch I have to be at in Baltimore on Monday. So I booked a ticket there on Delta from Idaho. Cost: $1,100.
My colleague in Cincinnati also booked a ticket to Baltimore for the same meeting. Cost: $1,200. Can anyone explain to me why his ticket is $100 more when he is 2000 miles closer to Baltimore than I am? The only good news is four years ago that same ticket from Idaho to Baltimore purchased two days before the flight would have cost me $2,000.
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Well, I don't understand why either ticket is that much!! I've flown coast to coast for $300!! Are you a first-class guy? That is a world I am not at all familiar with! Or is it a last-minute puchase price thing?
Reading your last post -- I'm with you on visualizing the year as a circle. I HAVE actually wondered how others do, so it's interesting to hear how your wife pictures it as a straight line. I can't fathom that. It would feel like the end of the year was the end of the universe or something! Cool ponderings.
Posted by: Laini | March 24, 2006 10:37 PM
Th tickets were so high because I bought it only two days before the flight. That is one of the airline's dirty little secrets. They figure anyone that is booking a ticket two days before departure doesn't really have a choice of whether they can go or not. They have to be there. So they charge as much as they can. It was a coach ticket, but I fly enough I usually get upgraded.
I'm glad to see someone else visuallizes time as a circle.
Posted by: jd | March 25, 2006 7:18 AM