While searching for a way to draw visitors to his website that sells tables and chairs, 33-year-old Matt Zajechowski had an idea. Why not put together a list of the cheapest and most expensive seats in the sky?
“We thought it would be a fun piece to look at the range of airline seat prices and put them on a scale that provides an interesting look at just how absurd some of these are,” he said.
While Zajechowski’s discovery of the $64,000 Abu Dhabi-New York first class ticket for a three-room private suite with butler service won’t come as a big surprise to regular RGN readers, his post calls attention to a reality that some people find disquieting; an ever widening gap separates economy class from the more affluent minority that is the airline industry’s “coddle class”.
It is not hard to understand why airlines focus so much attention on premium customers. They are, “high value customers,” notes Tim Mapes of Delta Air Lines. “Five percent of our customers account for 26 percent of Delta’s revenues.”
Several years of writing about the passenger experience has taught me there’s no limit to the ideas airlines have come up with to coddle their high-value customers. I marveled at the premium lounge in Istanbul where Turkish has created a Kasbah-like feel complete with massage chairs and billiard table, and then I visited La Première lounge at Air France in Paris and had lunch in the Alain Ducasse restaurant. Equally delightful surprises greeted me on
Article source: https://www.runwaygirlnetwork.com/2016/06/08/delta-acknowledges-but-is-unperturbed-by-bernie-sanders-effect/
