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Re:US airline to charge passengers extra to use overhead loc... by dingaling on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @10:25AM (#13123155)
To be fair to 'people', the flight search engines do a really poor job of permitting sorting by any other variables.

British Airways recently announced that they're modifying their 777 fleet to ten-abreast seating, instead of nine, to bring them into line with other airlines like Air France and Emirates. But if you were browsing similar flights between those airlines you'd never have been told that BA offered an extra two inches of seat-width, so why would you have chosen them?

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Re:US airline to charge passengers extra to use overhead loc... by wink on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:31PM (#13126872)
A hundred times this. If you're flying very rarely and your dates and destinations are set... in my experience there's not even much choice between a lot of airlines, usually 1-3 for a given time. So price is more like 'can I move this one to one day later to save x%' - I don't recall ever just shopping around for different airlines.
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