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Monthly Archives for October 2024.

Ads On United Airlines ‘Cross A Line’: Passenger Reports Phone Sex Ad On Seat Back Screen

Oct 27 2024

United Airlines has been adding seat back video screens to planes, and they’re planning to put the fastest internet in the sky on board – Starlink – starting next year. This is great for customers, but it’s all part of a plan to monetize the eyeballs of customers sitting on their planes.

Let’s check in on how that’s going.

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‘I Don’t Want To Sit With Them’: Husband Chooses United Airlines Back Row After Wife And Baby Self-Upgrade For Extra Legroom

Oct 26 2024

A woman with her toddler came over and plopped themselves down in that middle seat. She explained that she didn’t have enough space in the middle seat she’d been in further back in the aircraft – so she self-upgraded to “economy plus” extra legroom seats.

That way, she said, she’d be “more comfortable” with her kid – while her husband remained in an aisle seat farther back.

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Spirit Airlines Crisis Deepens With Another Major Round Of Route Cuts In Bid To Avoid Collapse

Oct 26 2024

The business model isn’t working. They don’t have long haul international service that customers have wanted to buy. They don’t have airline partnerships to sell those products on other carriers, or pick up connecting traffic from other airlines either. And they’ve been the downmarket product that’s very much out of favor, as customers have increasingly been interested in paying more for a better experience. (Spirit has even shifted its business model chasing that business.)

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