The Golden Age of Air Travel?
May 12th, 2017 at 5:29:24 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | qantas most profitable unit is their frequent flyer division. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-11/qantas-finds-loyalty-pays-better-than-selling-airplane-tickets |
April 9th, 2019 at 3:04:02 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 |
Airline passengers were always jokingly referred to as self loading freight but now its no joke; they are treated as freight and, much worse, crammed in like freight. Since the sixties, the two coasts have become over an hour's flying time further apart. This is of course mere scheduling. All private and government statistics about airline on-time performance are based on schedules padded with delays so any much ballyhooed improvement is actually statistical manipulation and not operational improvement. Even over the ocean a plane's position was simply 'ghosted' and updates were every fourteen minutes but now satellite systems are updating even transoceanic flights every minute and such precise positioning capabilities makes flights shorter as planes can be crammed closer to each other based on actual data rather than probabilistic estimates. We are finally approaching "free flight" wherein pilots will head to their destination rather than fly predetermined zig-zag routes that provide separation buffers. |
April 9th, 2019 at 11:30:07 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
I think SIA is now at 4 USA cities nonstop with a 5th (Seattle) to start this fall. Are you more likely to book a nonstop from USA on SIA today? Or do you stay with United Airlines with a change in some other foreign destination? Singapore Airlines Houston–Intercontinental, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Newark, Seattle/Tacoma (begins 3 September 2019), New York–JFK (via Frankfurt ?), United Airlines San Francisco in the 1990s you couldn't get there from the USA. We used to take UA from LAX to HKG and change planes there. On a windy day the plane couldn't even make it to HKG, but used to stop at Tapei. |
April 9th, 2019 at 11:42:20 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
It all depends on the client, client status (VIP or not a VIP) and the client's company rules. Some are allowed to take a nonstop regardless of price, some have to compare connecting prices Generally UA frequent flyers like SQ (Agents always use SQ, never SIA) because its a Star alliance carrier UA, partnering with NH (All Nippon) changing planes NRT, business class fares can be pretty competitive USA to SIN roundtrip Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |