Comments on: This Week on BNET (August 25 – 29) http://crankyflier.com/2008/08/30/this-week-on-bnet-august-25-29/ Thu, 24 May 2012 12:49:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David SF east bay http://crankyflier.com/2008/08/30/this-week-on-bnet-august-25-29/comment-page-1/#comment-62735 David SF east bay Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:29:21 +0000 http://crankyflier.com/?p=1155#comment-62735 Allegiant's loading money to an airport to expand to meet the airlines needs sounds like the old early days of aviation. The original airlines would go in and build an operation in a place where now was. Sounds like a smart move, it's almost like making the airport their private airport. ----------------- United making a big news release on paying for meals would not have happen as they would have been flooded with bad PR all at once. This way with a 'leak' the news is slow to get out and so the bad feedback would be spread out also. The airlines keep saying the public wants to be nickel and dimed for services to keep fares down, but exactly who are these people, I haven't met any of them. Funny how if you look up fares they don't reflect UA's fares being lower then other carriers to make up for not giving free meals. Shouldn't United's fare now be lower to reflect that people out of D.C. will pay for a meal to have a lower fare? Allegiant’s loading money to an airport to expand to meet the airlines needs sounds like the old early days of aviation. The original airlines would go in and build an operation in a place where now was. Sounds like a smart move, it’s almost like making the airport their private airport.

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United making a big news release on paying for meals would not have happen as they would have been flooded with bad PR all at once. This way with a ‘leak’ the news is slow to get out and so the bad feedback would be spread out also. The airlines keep saying the public wants to be nickel and dimed for services to keep fares down, but exactly who are these people, I haven’t met any of them. Funny how if you look up fares they don’t reflect UA’s fares being lower then other carriers to make up for not giving free meals. Shouldn’t United’s fare now be lower to reflect that people out of D.C. will pay for a meal to have a lower fare?

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