American Airlines: if you aren't a loyalty member, f off (probably)

At American Airlines, loyalty is everything....almost literally

[halfdeadfish]

“Are you a loyalty member” “no” “okay weird”💀

[jonathanolson]

Tier 1 of loyalty member (credit card holder) is also greeted with a measure of disgust.

Also I can’t believe that a larger percentage of the revenue isn’t from their ticket prices… which are always 30% more than competitors.

[z-beeblebrox]

Sign up for the BreatheGold upgrade pass and they'll even let keep your section of the cabin pressurized!

[werbahwerbah]

I am in month 3 of canceling a ticket. That I had insurance on. That $430 means everything to AA.

[JvmCassandra]

The “Ok Gross” section tickets are probably oversold and some walking tree trunk size security would escort you off the plane as if you didn’t buy ticket and make you sleep on the tarmac waiting for the next flight.

[trey]

I was buying shoes the other day and they asked me for my phone number. I was like no

[ahsanhabibjy]

That “Okay gross” gets me every time 😂

[Ryvaken]

AA is a particularly heinous case. That report on revenue, for example. Revenue just means money coming in. If you look at profit, the balance of revenue and expenses, AA loses money with every flight. They have absolutely no incentive to make flying more appealing, beyond being the lure to get you into their rewards programs.

[nathanielgonsalves]

This is why we need mass high speed rail in the US.

[NightOfCrystals]

American Airlines is miserable to fly. Flights are late all the time, the boarding process is strange - they have 9 groups and they will absolutely power through them so you have to attentively wait even if you’re in group 9, and the customer service is downright awful. On my last flight with them on Tuesday, I had to endure the flight attendant promoting their credit card over and over again, even as I was exiting the plane. On the flight before that, I was served room temperature flat sparkling water. It honestly felt like an insult to me for requesting it. The trip before this one was bungled too. I will, to the best of my ability, never fly American again.

[JollyTSwift]

The only reason airlines are profitable is through government subsidies. Without them, people can't afford to fly.
The points thing is true also. The airline industry in general is held together with faith and duct tape.
Most profitable is cargo. As the saying goes "cargo doesn't ask for discounts, cargo doesn't need an Attendant, and cargo doesn't complain."

Edit: I am a pilot, have a degree in aviation management, and currently work at an airport. These are the things they taught in a university setting.

[fortress]

i choose Jester,
make it rain
make it rain

[GoldenTV]

I have this idea for a form of travel that doesn't need to go across large bodies of water.

We could get cars, but widen them and instead of wheels they can ride on metal beams.
They could be powered by power lines on top, and we could have link more of them together, like in a series.
The inside of the cars could be quite luxurious with seats, tables, charging ports for electronics.

I suppose we call this new form of transportation high speed rail.

It's such an innovative idea that I'm sure literally every other developed country hasn't figured it out yet. And there's no way under-developed countries like Uzbekistan could have figured this out.

[MalkuthEmperor]

I love how the seats at the back were the legend 😂

[texaswunderkind]

With Southwest your three-year-old can sit in a middle seat...six rows behind you, where you are also in a middle seat. If you pay a lot more you can join the other 90% of passengers who paid for "priority" boarding...in Group C.

[patmarek]

Across the pond you can try Ryanair. Everyone’s a Jester.

[MalkuthEmperor]

Scenic Views on the side of the plane?

SIGN ME UP!

[GrizzleyBruin]

So, will the things the first class passengers throw at me expensive?

[tedtalksrock]

With all the side panels falling off Boeing jets these days…getting duct taped to the plane so you don’t get sucked out seems like a good safety strategy…

[jasonpark]

Id take the jester tbh, im a whimsical little guy