Air travelers in the United States are already paying for sandwiches and drinks, pillows and headsets. So, as airlines look for more ways to help their bottom lines, they have started asking the next logical question: Why not sell limousine services or even tickets to Broadway shows?
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Other airlines declined to talk on the record about their plans, but nearly all the major carriers acknowledged that they were working on expanding retail offerings.
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“Look at what’s going on in airports,” he said. “Anytime you have customers who are captive, who have nothing better to do, they’ll shop.”The technology making the onboard sales possible is being provided by GuestLogix, a Canadian company that sells the credit card readers and sales software to the airline industry. A brochure promoting its products describes onboard retail as unique because “operators are able to lock their doors with their shoppers still inside.”
In an interview, Brett Proud executive vice president of global sales and client support for GuestLogix, described the jetliner as “a retail space that is probably the biggest retail opportunity ever uncovered,” adding, “It’s huge.”
They better hire more air marshals
Speaking of air travels..
Apparently, The Ukrainians had a chemtrail attack a few days prior to people’s lungs starting to liquefy.
get a load of the gizmo hooked up to the back of this jetliner.
(btw: they sprayed again over my area making for another wild sunset..)
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Maybe they could sell ads for the side of the plane, like blimps. How about dropping leaflets. How about doing away with the insane pricing system and charge the same for each seat. Nothing like sitting next to someone finding out they paid half the price you did.
I already roll my eyes when the air waitresses try to sell me a MegaByte cookie and the captain needs to tell me how high up we are.
The solution is an iPOD and headset or earplugs. I think selling while travel is inevitable. Expect cheap internet service but with megadoses of advertisement too.
Give me an airline that sells booze, weed, condoms, hookers and internet access and you have a customer for life.
[sarcasm on]
Don’t you care about our National Security Benjamin? I am afraid we have to send you to Gitmo now. Your lax security would let the ‘terrists win.
[sarcasm off]
#4, I think you meant “Expect expensive internet service…”. After all, we’re talking airlines!
I’m with Benjamin. I don’t care to fly and I avoid it whenever possible. It’s been more than 10 years now. Every year the stories about air travel get worse and worse.
I’ll take the train or drive whenever possible until Scotty gets that transporter invented.
Oh, and a nice healthy carbon tax would squelch a whole lot of air traffic. Something to think about.
“Welcome aboard FlyUs flight 111, brought to you by Amway. Please sit back and enjoy a live 5 hour presentation by our friend Amy on the wonderful world of Amway multi-level marketing.”
Tell them to don’t forget to turn up the volume to overpower the iPods and BOSE headsets with their commercial message!
Just remember two words… “The train”
or “stay home”
A little slower but a lot more fun!
i can see the airlines new ads now, with Beldar Conehead as their “spokesperson”
When on Earth ,I always fly “Consume Mass Quantities Airlines”!
I think that video conferencing is going to become more attractive with the passing of time.
Rail is definitely the way to go if you have the time, and if there’s one going where you need to go. Who is working hardest to suppress rail travel? The airlines, of course. A nice “BTU Tax” is what we need…