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Squeezing "Extra" Revenue from Allegiant’s Seats

6 August 2025 By Seth Miller Leave a Comment

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Launching a new product at an airline that requires changing the layout of the cabin brings a lot of risk. Allegiant remains convinced its “Extra” seats play is paying off.

This story is about: Allegiant, Allegiant Extra, ancillary, ancillary fees, ancillary revenue, bundling, Drew Wells, economy class, premium cabin, seating, seats, unbundling Filed Under: Seats & Cabin

Delta pushes product segmentation, punts on Basic Business for now

2 December 2024 By Seth Miller Leave a Comment

The new Premium Select cabin as it will fly on the 767-300s

Market segmentation is all the rage at airlines these days, but can it go too far? How many different versions of an economy class ticket does Delta Air Lines really need?

This story is about: ancillary, ancillary fees, ancillary revenue, basic business, basic economy, BizAv, bundling, business aviation, business class, Delta Air Lines, Delta One, DeltaOne, earnings call, economy class, Glen Hauenstein, premium cabin, premium economy, Premium Select, seating, seats, unbundling, WheelsUp Filed Under: Seats & Cabin

Less Artificial, more Intelligence, please!

2 January 2024 By Seth Miller Leave a Comment

entrance to security area and an airport, with large letters indicating the gates

Even as airlines invest in so-called artificial intelligence-powered systems, they continue to demonstrate the troubles they have with implementing seemingly simple intelligence for their offerings

This story is about: AI, ancillary, ancillary fees, ancillary revenue, artificial intelligence, bundling, fare families, machine learning, Novia, unbundling, upgrades, WAF23, World Aviation Festival Filed Under: OpEd

Baltimore, Boston picked for PLAY’s US debut

16 December 2021 By Seth Miller 3 Comments

Travelers from Baltimore and Boston now have a new option to Europe. Iceland’s PLAY intends to launch both markets in Spring 2022, connecting the US to Europe via its hub at Keflavik.

This story is about: ancillary, ancillary fees, ancillary revenue, BOS, Boston, BWI, Iceland, in flight, in-seat power, KEF, Keflavik, PLAY, routes, TATL, transatlantic, ULCC, Ultra low cost carriers, unbundling Filed Under: Airplanes and Airports, IFEC

EasyJet shrinks cabin baggage allowance

1 December 2020 By Seth Miller Leave a Comment

Will some these U/LCC seats remain off the market? And will that kill the airlines flying them??

The carrier is pitching the move as a push to improve on-time performance, but easyJet’s new hand baggage policy looks an awful lot like an ancillary revenue push.

This story is about: ancillary, ancillary fees, ancillary revenue, carry-on baggage, checked baggage, EasyJet, LCC, LCCs, Low Cost Carriers, unbundling Filed Under: Loyalty, Seats & Cabin

Finding détente in the airline-GDS cost battle: Air France/KLM and Amadeus make peace, progress

10 April 2018 By Seth Miller Leave a Comment

Peace is possible between the airlines and GDS platforms! Air France/KLM and Amedeus agreed to waive distribution fees in some cases, benefiting passengers in the near term. But it is the longer term plans around NDC content distribution that hold real potential for an improved passenger experience.

This story is about: Aegean Airlines, Aer Lingus, Air France, Amadeus, ancillary fees, Aviation, British Airways, bundling, distribution, Etihad, fees, GDS, IAG, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa Group, NDC, New Distribution Capability, unbundling Filed Under: Distribution

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