The Straphangers Pay the Dividends!
Coming soon to my flights to Seattle, Portland, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Las Vegas.
Kelly Evans:
Would You Stand on Short Flights if It Meant Cheaper Fares?: Irish-based discount airline Ryanair recently polled 120,000 passengers on its Web site with the following question: would you be willing to stand on short flights? The answer was an overwhelming “yes” — if the tickets were free. Two-thirds of respondents said they’d stand on flights of less than an hour if their tickets were free; 42% were willing to do so for tickets that were half-off. According to Marketwatch.com: A spokesman for Ryanair, Stephen McNamara, said the airline is looking to replace traditional seats with “vertical ones,” which on a typical flight would allow between 50 and 60 additional passengers.
