PSA and piedmont

[cheapgreek]

Yes I do realize that USAir does not get the money. I also realize (maybe you don't?) that people don't care who gets the money, they just care about the final cost.
Interesting, Doug Parker disagrees with you. Yes there ARE people who will pay X amount of dollars to fly to HHH, and if that becomes X + 1.50, they will not. If not, US would already be charging an extra 1.50, since everyone would pay it. But they won't.

You must be going on like this because you are joking about the whole issue.
I have never met anyone who would balk at a purchase of hundreds of dollars due to an increase of $1.50. But today I met my first and only one, YOU.
You must have never worked for an airline and it shows with your lack of airline pricing knowledge and how people view ticket price increases, raise the $30.00 and people will notice, but never,never $1.50. That's not even the cost of less than a half gallon of gas.

 

[cheapgreek]

Well with that theory no airline should operate more than one type plane... Drrrrrr

Mergers involve many more frames than exists at PDT and PSA. PDT is shrinking, before the merger with Allegheny, PDT had a fleet of about 70 planes, and today the combined operation has barely 40.
Both are sub fleets and not large enough to be on their own.

 

[kf4amu]

You must be going on like this because you are joking about the whole issue.
I have never met anyone who would balk at a purchase of hundreds of dollars due to an increase of $1.50. But today I met my first and only one, YOU.
You must have never worked for an airline and it shows with your lack of airline pricing knowledge and how people view ticket price increases, raise the $30.00 and people will notice, but never,never $1.50. That's not even the cost of less than a half gallon of gas.

Well if you found a way for a price curve not to apply to a certain industry, maybe you should go work in yield management at an airline because they are obviously leaving money on the table.

 

[cheapgreek]

Well if you found a way for a price curve not to apply to a certain industry, maybe you should go work in yield management at an airline because they are obviously leaving money on the table.

$1.50 is not a price curve. Its hardly a blip on the bottom line. The airlines make that up and more with baggage fees, aisle or window seating, change fees for changing dates and so on. $1.50 will NEVER change a travelers flight plans except maybe for you but you should be able to find that small change in the pay phone coin return box or maybe behind a soda machine.
Non airline people keep thinking all businesses are run like Walmat or dollar stores, they are not.These stores sell products off the shelf and if today no one buys that product, the have tomorrow and the days after that to sell that item. Airlines get one chance to sell a service on a given flight and if the seat is not sold, the opportunity to make a profit on that seat is gone forever. On any given flight, there are dozens of fares that passengers are charged depending on the number of seats sold and the closeness to the departure date and they are all separated by more than $1.50, the cost of a soda at Mcdonalds.
I must say you are unique in that I never heard of or knew of anybody who changes his air travel plans for an increase of $1.50, but you must be the first and only one out there who would. As such, the airlines have nothing to worry about.

 

[kf4amu]

$1.50 is not a price curve. Its hardly a blip on the bottom line. The airlines make that up and more with baggage fees, aisle or window seating, change fees for changing dates and so on. $1.50 will NEVER change a travelers flight plans except maybe for you but you should be able to find that small change in the pay phone coin return box or maybe behind a soda machine.
Non airline people keep thinking all businesses are run like Walmat or dollar stores, they are not.These stores sell products off the shelf and if today no one buys that product, the have tomorrow and the days after that to sell that item. Airlines get one chance to sell a service on a given flight and if the seat is not sold, the opportunity to make a profit on that seat is gone forever. On any given flight, there are dozens of fares that passengers are charged depending on the number of seats sold and the closeness to the departure date and they are all separated by more than $1.50, the cost of a soda at Mcdonalds.
I must say you are unique in that I never heard of or knew of anybody who changes his air travel plans for an increase of $1.50, but you must be the first and only one out there who would. As such, the airlines have nothing to worry about.

You will change your travel plans over 1.50 too. You have a maximum you are willing to pay, and that's it. If you'll pay 1.50 more than that, it isn't a maximum. Keep increasing it by 1.50 and eventually you will not buy. Me too.

 

[cheapgreek]

You will change your travel plans over 1.50 too. You have a maximum you are willing to pay, and that's it. If you'll pay 1.50 more than that, it isn't a maximum. Keep increasing it by 1.50 and eventually you will not buy. Me too.

I never have changed my plans over $1.50 and I don't pick pennies off the ground. How foolish would I have to be to allow $1.50 to alter my plans and no one else would.
If after spending much time in planning a trip, what sane person would change his plans? Not a sane person.
The maximum would have to involve many more dollars because how utter cheap would a person have to be?
Flying to HHH instead of SAV for $1.50 more is a great deal that only one person would pass up and that person is not me.

 

[kf4amu]

I never have changed my plans over $1.50 and I don't pick pennies off the ground. How foolish would I have to be to allow $1.50 to alter my plans and no one else would.
If after spending much time in planning a trip, what sane person would change his plans? Not a sane person.
The maximum would have to involve many more dollars because how utter cheap would a person have to be?
Flying to HHH instead of SAV for $1.50 more is a great deal that only one person would pass up and that person is not me.

OK let me say it again. We are not comparing the price of HHH being 1.50 more than SAV. We are comparing the price of the same ticket to HHH going up 1.50. Got it?

And yes you would avoid buying something for 1.50. You wouldn't buy a car for 1.50 more than your maximum willing price you're willing to pay, otherwise it's not a maximum.

You have a maximum whether you want to believe it or not. Everyone does. And they won't pay a penny more than that.

 

[BoilerUP]

The real world does not always play out the way an Economics textbook says it should.

Sometimes, I quote myself.

I think Eastshore Aviation is gonna buy Piedmont and PSA...new nickname PSAWAC'n.

 

[cheapgreek]

OK let me say it again. We are not comparing the price of HHH being 1.50 more than SAV. We are comparing the price of the same ticket to HHH going up 1.50. Got it?

And yes you would avoid buying something for 1.50. You wouldn't buy a car for 1.50 more than your maximum willing price you're willing to pay, otherwise it's not a maximum.

You have a maximum whether you want to believe it or not. Everyone does. And they won't pay a penny more than that.

So one spends a great deal of time researching a new car and then decides on a specific model and when the time comes to close the deal, the salesman says the final price will be $1.50 more. That tiny amount will not matter when thousands are spent on a purchase. I have never in all my years heard such an ridiculous position that can not be defended in the real world of doing business.
Over the years I have never met a person with such a narrow, cheap view such as yours and I am glad of that.
No one on this forum agrees with you, that should tell you something about your foolish view of how people spend money. $1.50 must mean a great deal to you.

 

[kf4amu]

So one spends a great deal of time researching a new car and then decides on a specific model and when the time comes to close the deal, the salesman says the final price will be $1.50 more. That tiny amount will not matter when thousands are spent on a purchase. I have never in all my years heard such an ridiculous position that can not be defended in the real world of doing business.
Over the years I have never met a person with such a narrow, cheap view such as yours and I am glad of that.
No one on this forum agrees with you, that should tell you something about your foolish view of how people spend money. $1.50 must mean a great deal to you.

If the agreed upon price is the maximum you are willing to pay then yes 1.50 more will kill the deal. Otherwise it's not a maximum. Do you not have limits to what you'll pay for things? Must be nice if you don't.