There is a new flight trend that has already “taken off”. Traditionally, most airlines have divided the cabin into three categories: first-class, business, and economics, but in the past few years, we have seen some companies introduce new intermediate solutions. Although each company has different names, from “light business”, “fine business” to “basic business” to “special business”, it is all about the same thing: the price is cheaper, but it also lacks the business class that originally had other benefits such as the cabin.
This trend stems in part from the fact that airlines wanted to make business class more “flexible” for a while, so they split the standard business class plan into different welfare plans and sell it at lower prices so that passengers can have more price options. Generally speaking, the customer responses are positive, and many people appreciate that they don’t have to cry to buy more spacious seats. However, some people say that this is just a change of soup and not a dressing, and does not provide real flexibility.
This is not the first time that airlines have used a price split strategy. At the beginning, passengers were asked to pay for on-board catering, and then pillows and blankets had to be calculated extra. Recently, even the checked baggage fee was also calculated separately, rather than all included in the air ticket. A large part of the latest changes seem to be related to the rise of air ticket search sites such as SkyScanner or Google Flights, and as customers search and buy flights with minimum rates, some airlines will keep additional fees first until the latter part of the procurement process is not shown.
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