{"id":33421,"date":"2013-04-30T09:27:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/the-high-and-variable-cost-of-flying.html"},"modified":"2013-04-30T11:25:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:25:42","slug":"the-high-and-variable-cost-of-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/the-high-and-variable-cost-of-flying.html","title":{"rendered":"The high (and variable) cost of flying"},"content":{"rendered":"
I think what frustrates me more than airline prices in general, are what seem like zany price differentials between things that intuitively feel like they should be the same. \u00a0There are a variety of reasons for that (the airlines are not irrational), but the all boil down to maximizing profit by getting as many bodies on a plane as it will hold for as high a price as they believe people will pay at that single point in time.<\/p>\n

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Why Plane Tickets Cost So Much (And How You Can Still Get a Deal)<\/a>
\n A few months ago, I was speaking with the folks from Singapore Airlines. We ended up talking about the public perception of the cost of airfare. Everyone is always looking for the cheapest flight, and…\n <\/p>\n

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I think what frustrates me more than airline prices in general, are what seem like zany price differentials between things that intuitively feel like they should be the same. \u00a0There are a variety of reasons for that (the airlines are not irrational), but the all boil down to maximizing profit by getting as many bodies … Continue reading “The high (and variable) cost of flying”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26895,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/08\/price-fixing-ebooks.html","url_meta":{"origin":33421,"position":0},"title":"Price-fixing ebooks","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Mar-12 7:06am","format":false,"excerpt":"This will be an interesting DoJ suit -- basically that the change to \"agency pricing\" with Apple, and then forcing the same deal on Amazon, was price-fixing.I'm not sure on the argument about agency pricing itself -- an agreement between a supplier and a retailer that the supplier will set\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30298,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/22\/publisher-shocked-shocked-to-discover-price-competition.html","url_meta":{"origin":33421,"position":1},"title":"Publisher shocked, SHOCKED, to discover price competition","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 22-Sep-12 12:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"How could any market possibly survive where sellers are not only allowed but want to sell the same product at different prices? 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