Originally Posted by
giggitygiggity
That's not true, there could easily be quite a large imbalance between loss of revenue...
For example. many would want a Virgin Atlantic/Easyjet travel swap. The Virgin guy could reasonbly commute on easyjet easyjet staff travel (upto 2 flights a week?) but for the easyjet guy, it would just be for a holiday maybe once a year on Virgin.
If the VA guy is using easyjet twice a week, that's potentially a massive loss in revenue at easyjet. Of course, staff travel swaps would probably account for most of those circumstances anyway but it would certainly be a net loss for easyjet.
The point of standby tickets is that you are not going if there is no empty seat for you (jumpseat rides excluded)... How is there a loss in revenue if the seat is otherwise empty, or better put, not sold? In case of a jumpseat ride it is even extra revenue as you usually can't sell that seat (until one of the LCCs catches on to that idea
).