Free Seating Policy - meant to save money wasn't it?
FistFokker, Figure me this
- if a pax knocks off a seatbelt or a lifejacket, or vandalises the seat area, and the seat was allocated, then what is the result ? The PAX is confronted before he or she leaves the terminal and the gear is returned 99.99999% of the time. If not they are contacted with a please explain by the Feds . Note that this is less likely to happen in an allocated seat in the first place for obvious reasons.
- If the same happens with free seating (and it does - at a vastly higher rate than non-free-seating) then there is no hope of getting the gear back or the responsible parties confronted.
- Now, if a life jacket is worth $120.00, and it's a 120 seat aeroplane and only one life jacket per aeroplane per day goes walkies, what does that add to the ticket cost ????
I am sure the cost benifit of free seating is pretty much neutralised.
- Next add the security issues and the potential to loose multiple lifejackets or have multiple seat damage, and PAX general distrust or dislike of free seating, and the liklihood of seat skirmish in the terminal.
How does reinventing the wheel look now? The new wheel is not that much faster than the old one is it ??????????