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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by telchar on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:17PM (#17882397)
It's not that I want a terrible experience, it's that I can easily sort by price and I can't easily determine how comfortable a plane will be. Until a site allows me to sort by a weighted function of price and comfort it's just too much effort to book a flight by anything but price. Taking into account the various combinations of airports, dates, times, locations (I typically fly for leisure), optimizing is already a exponentially more difficult with each option even with a simple cost function, never mind one that I have to go to a separate website to look up for each and every possible flight.
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by dang on Saturday September 01, 2018 @11:00PM (#17895283)
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by st26 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:39PM (#17882761)
What a useless reply. Your parent is IMO accurate. The consumer is not actually valuing price above everything else; the consumer does not have all the information on how comfortable this or that flight is, and we all know markets only work optimally when the buyer has all the information.

Basically the market for airline flights is not a well functioning transparent market, so you cannot say "aha, the consumer preference is obviously the cheapest ticket at all costs".

Personally I would happily pay a little more for more legroom, but have found no good reliable way to find those tickets.

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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by frankchn on Friday August 31, 2018 @02:09AM (#17883299)
I might be in the minority, but I usually take a look at Seat Guru or read one or two trip reports or flight reviews before buying an transatlantic or transcontinental airline ticket, just as I would with any other $500+ purchase.
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