Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
When I travel, I like to keep strong control over costs (too easy to burn through money if on a card), and avoid an audit trail that can be used to monetise any sort of profile. Consequently, I like cash. Some airlines (Easyjet and Ryanair amongst others) make a big thing about being cashless, and consequently make zero inflight sales from me. In any case, most flights over 6 hours (no, not Ryanair) seem to have a free meal anyway. Am I a rarity or do others refuse to hand over credit cards ? Does this materially affect inflight ancillary sales or profitability ?
How would you book a flight? By card?! Your audit trail has started.
Do you have a supermarket 'loyalty' card? You have a trail and your shopping preferences are stored.
If you use FACEBOOK, and do a search on GOOGLE for a certain product your news feed on FACEBOOK will contain adverts from companies selling the product you GOOGLED.
Yes your actions would of course affect in-flight ancillary sales, commission and profits, that's obvious isn't it?!