Re:Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than g...
by tshaddox on Thursday May 29, 2025 @05:01PM
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I doubt the difference is minimal. Forget the size of beds, the point is that a hotel with 200 single-person rooms has twice the beds, twice the bathrooms, roughly twice the walls, etc. than a hotel with 100 two-person rooms.
Re:Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than g...
by chgs on Thursday May 29, 2025 @06:39PM
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A hotel hosting 100 single people will be roughly the same size and operating costs as a hotel hosting 100 couples, even if the rooms had a 3’ bed rather than a 6’ bed
And thus could be 3’ smaller
Most single people own and sleep in double beds, so there's no sense in which a double bed is "designed to accomodate" two travellers.
The issue is more that discounted single room rates would encourage unofficial double stays, which would lose significant income.