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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
The 'pie' you are referring to is price sensitive customers, not service sensitive customers. The supply of anything is a function of demand. Your about about confirm this is true in your below statements.
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It's not the entire pie, but a big enough portion that the everything hinges on that price. I said I agree with that part, it's your complaining about the complaining I'm talking about.
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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
What I said, and say again is that things seem pretty trivial when TV and Spolumbo's are the big differentiators.
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And we agree on why the differentiators are so trivial.. but then discussing those differentiators and why someone would choose one over the other based on the only available differentiators is somehow jumping the shark?
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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
In the US they complain about being stuck on the tarmac for 5 hours at EWR. Maybe that happens in Canada two, but in the scheme of problems on airlines I'm just commenting on how things can't be that bad when you get transported across the country, safely, for almost nothing, but you had to endure diet coke service instead of coke zero service. Also if on demand TV is so important, mix in a ipad and you aren't so depended on the dreaded awfulness that is an airlines service.
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Choosing one airline over another (or rather talking about it) because one offers better entertainment is jumping the shark because airports in the US have longer wait times? I don't see how that follows.
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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
Things are pretty good in Canada when are differentiating between TV systems. You could be in the US where they lose all your bags and don't give a F. You could be kicked off a flight that you are on with your kids and now figure out how to manage that, or in Russia where planes fall out of the sky.
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Well sure, if this were a thread comparing air travel in Canada to elsewhere in the world, those would be the expected comments..
But that's like saying no one should discuss or lament the Flames current owners/players/situation because 5 other teams are worse off.
It's not like people are proposing revolts in the streets or for airline management to be pitted against bears in unarmed combat, they're saying "I don't like A because I get this thing I want on B for the same price".
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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
Seems like the ultimate in 1st world problems.
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What's more 1st world, people discussing how they choose their first world airline based on its food/entertainment offerings, or people complaining about people discussing how they choose their first world airline?
"Fire/Keep Feaster and Vancouver sucks" discussions would sit pretty high on the 1st world problems scale. We happen to live in the first world though, and I don't think "discussing X or feeling Y is jumping the shark because someone somewhere else has it worse" is meaningful. At the very least it's off topic.