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Consumer Traveler Today: Jan 12
01-12-2011
Consumer Traveler Today: Airline seats as commodities
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- Airline seats as commodities
- What we’re reading: Virtual sunny days, TSA IT saboteur jailed, 767 milestone
- Here’s an update on yesterday’s Southwest story — and how you can help
- What we’re watching: Hotel room cooking, AA makes bargain tickets harder to find, protest underwear
- Planning to use miles for 2011 holiday travel? Get your fingers ready now. Really.
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Posted: 12 Jan 2011 03:00 AM PST At the heart of the American Airlines/distribution system battles that are raging is the bottom line of saving money. AA wants to basically distribute for free and cut out all of the middle men. The other central issue is what American (AA) and other legacy airlines feel is the unjust relegation of their precious seats to the status of a commodity. Unfortunately, no matter what AA does, a legacy airline seat, is an airline seat, is an airline seat.
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What we’re reading: Virtual sunny days, TSA IT saboteur jailed, 767 milestone Posted: 12 Jan 2011 02:48 AM PST Virtual reality in cockpit means always sunny days, would-be TSA computer saboteur gets jailed, 767 milestone and possible assembly-line shutdown
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