[hnsmurf]

This guy has apparently never heard of first class. You pay $200 extra, just like he suggested, and you get every perk he suggested that isn't impossible due to government regulation. They'll give you more legroom, better food (and you don't have to pay for it), and even load your carryon for you.

[mtjl79]

Of course I have heard of first class.

But what I am talking about is an entirely different travel experience. Airlines trying to be different and innovating - and airlines trying to MAKE A PROFIT.

[true_religion]

What's different between the experience you suggest and first class?

[mtjl79]

I wasn't trying to define an experience, but give ideas of things I hate when I fly.

The whole point of the article is why airlines can't make money - and maybe it's because they are all the same?

So why do you think airlines can't make money?

[Zev]

So why do you think airlines can't make money?

Because not enough people are willing to pay $200 more for slightly more legroom, nor for better food, nor for this or that or anything else you mentioned.

As the OP said, airlines already do let you pay for as much of this as they can.

[mtjl79]

So you are saying if 20% of the 1 billion people that travel every year didn't pay $200 more - it wouldn't generate profit?

[gte910h]

First Class cabins are sized what they are because they reliably are all that will pay for them.

Very few people find it worth it.

Many people just don't get how well off they are compared to random person in a random town in the country.

$290. That's a weeks pay at minimum wage.

[gte910h]

$290 is pre-tax btw.

[molecule]

Officers of corporations are obligated, by market forces and law, to try to make a profit for their investors.

edit: except for registered not-for-profit corporations.