Good news, John Battelle is here to help! Check out this Business Insider article he wrote about, well, nothing. So to summarize his complaints, airline pricing is irrational and airlines have different fare buckets available which could potentially raise the price of your tickets if multiple people are traveling. Next.
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November 16th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Eric said,
Yeah..i bitched about that myself. I left a comment saying, in essence – stop bitching and vote with your wallet.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Gene said,
What a moron.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:36 am
mre5765 said,
DFTT
November 17th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Daniel Dauplaise said,
This kind of article really highlights the difference between a serious traveller and FlyerTalk people. Serious travellers know a lot, but FlyerTalk people are borderline obsessive. Good pick up on the article.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Craig said,
Mildly amusing, but nothing new there…and his repeated use of “cel phone” shows he’s either (a) not that bright or (b) doesn’t know how to use spell check.
If he’d taken his experience and expanded it into an explanation of how fare buckets work, it could have made a good primer for his readers. Lost opportunity…
November 19th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Rob said,
Mr. Battelle appears to think that airline ticket prices are like movie ticket prices.
The transcript of his call reminds me of another call, except for in the other situation the caller has the opposite problem. He thinks movie ticket prices are like seats on an airplane and expects the price to change with the number of tickets purchased:
http://bit.ly/1rPLx2
What Mr. Battelle and the other caller have in common is that they both seem to want something extra for being special. I’m not sure why he would call reservations in the first place other than to see if he was entitled to some kind of a discount in “business class” to Tuscon for being an “Executive Premier”.
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