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Cyber Monday Airfares
Getting your holiday shopping done today via the web? Don’t forget to check out the Cyber Monday deals the airlines are rolling out. OK sure they may just be participating because they need to fill the seats, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t deals to be had because of it. Among the airlines participating on discount flights are: Virgin America, United Airlines, and Jet Blue. Visit their sites today to see what they have to offer … you may just snag yourself a great a cheap seat going someplace cool.
There are some restrictions as should be expected. United’s discount fares are good on purchases made today for flights between Jan. 5th – Feb 11th. This is for travel in the US and Canada. Virgin America extends the purchase period from today to the Dec. 8th with flight dates between Dec. 3rd and May 23rd. See their respective sites for more details on these restrictions and deals.
Have fun shopping and remember to check out our cool airline apparel, all on sale in the Flight Store. Great for anyone who loves flying or works in the airline industry. We Have a Cyber Monday sale that gets you 20% off purchases of $40 or more. Also check out FREE SHIPPING on orders of $50 dollars or more. Happy Holidays from . . .
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Wi-Flight?
Major airlines are working to provide Wi-Fi service to passengers for upcoming flights. The service is believed to be extremely marketable especially to business travelers. Research shows whether a flight has the possibility to connect to the internet or not is more important than if it offers a meal. Besides offering yet another amenity to it’s passengers, there is another motive to install Wi-Fi on the airlines’ fleets. This added service would mean an added potential for more revenue, via a fee to connect, for airlines.
Airlines with Wi-Fi already installed, like Virgin America, use Aircell for their service and fees can range from $5.95 to $12.95 depending on the length of the flight. Airlines share the belief that passengers who want to stay connected to the world through, email, Facebook, Twitter, and other online media will happily pay this fee. It could be a money making venture not unlike the checked baggage fees.
With so many airlines working to install this service like Delta, American, and Southwest; they may just end up losing their target market for this fee . . . the business traveler. With most major carriers offering the service, it is only a matter of time before an airline makes the service free to it’s elite passengers in order to lure them away from other airlines. JetBlue has already announced intentions to offer free email and instant-messaging services on twenty of it’s Airbus A320 jets. If this becomes the case that would leave the average passenger to pay for the optional service. How willing would they be to opt for it?
According to Virgin America, the first US airline to offer the service, about 10% to 15% of passengers pay for the service. This percent jumps to 25% on transcontinental flights. It may be tough to gage how much revenue the airlines can seek to gain in this move. It is a relatively new service and market for airlines and it may take awhile for passengers to warm up to the idea. People do seem to love their mobile devices and staying connected to the web wherever they go. It has proven to be a very marketable feature in the cell phone industry. With most jets already modified for the feature, airlines like Delta seem to have confidence in the commodity. What do you think? Is tweeting in flight worth a fee?
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