Air France-KLM low cost carrier Transavia has recently launched a new option for customers to resell their airline tickets. I find this to be quite interesting, and wonder if we could see this on a more widespread basis (thanks to Aaron for flagging this).
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Can someone please contribute a vampire joke?
I'm too jet lagged. But I read that as "Transylvania's Airline..." and now I'd like a Count Dracula or vampire joke of some kind
This reminds me of those people who bought a hotel room. The hotel rents their rooms out first, so the reality of your room being rented out is low. This is the same thing. The airline will focus on their tickets first and then sell others. I would also not be suprised if they take a cut on reselling your ticket.
Back in the day, universities would ban ticket reselling for sporting events. In the modern era, those who sell out every game never have to worry that resales will cannibalize potential sales. So, now you can offer to resell your tickets to a football game at whatever price you want, with the university and ticket platform sharing in the proceeds. Sold out flights make oodles of sense for this technology. And, if you remember you basic economics courses, this generates economic surplus by definition.
Isn’t it only US full service airlines who ended change fees? This may be an interesting article because I wasn’t aware that BA, KLM, Lufthansa, and the other main European carriers don’t have change fees on their non-refundable, non-Economy Light cash fares. I just assumed they did because they have change fees on their award tickets.
Vivaaerobus in Mexico has something similar, where you as passenger you can sell your ticket to the airline and you receive whatever the amount offers you in e-vouchers. I have used it two times by now and one of those times, I got more money than I had originally paid.