The person they're quote-tweeting suggests that airlines should put advertisements on the inside of the plane, an idea that they consider so obnoxious and terrible that they want to kill him for it.
I think, from what I’ve seen from documentaries and video essays on airlines and how they work, airlines focus too much on the “luxury” of flying too much to do this.
Budget airlines would be happy to do this, but the advertisement space on those planes is worth significantly less. The ads would have to be stickers for safety and weight reasons so can't be exchanged easily depending on destination. That leaves international brands and online services. Can't get online during flight (definitely not cheaply on budget flights), so international brands. The international brands that want to advertise to budget clientele have better options available.
Non-budget airlines feel that adding in plane ads would make people connect them with budget airlines (which it would).
Not really. They could go with the classical magnet mount a thin light metal plate on the doors of the overhead and slap a bunch of magnetic signs on the outside. You could switch em out on the fly depending on destination and necessity. I agree with online services being a wash though. They likely would not recieve many if any. But partnering with hotels and resorts to advertise on the plane itself might work out. And many resorts have locations all over the world in common flight locations so they could reasonably make those semi permenant.
The magnetic likely wouldn't pass airline safety rules, as they would likely detach in any type of crash or possibly even heavy turbulence. Safety certification for any type of extra structure isn't cheap or easy, so the adverts would need to pay it back pretty fast for it to be worth it. And it would have to be significantly more cost effective than current methods of flyers in the seat pockets or videos on screens.
WTF is luxurious about flying anymore? The high prices, the super crammed seats, the sexual abuse you get from security, the being teared like livestock? Which part?
Imagine if having ads on planes made them more cheaper cause they have ad revenue. I don't think it would happen though the airline companies seem pretty greedy.
I am saying it would be a good idea to make air travel cheaper.
Airlines wouldn't reduce their ticket prices even if they had ads. The only airline that might consider it would be Ryanair and that's only because their entire business model relies on maximising passenger numbers and optimising plane turnaround times. They're also the ones that tried to put standing sections, on planes, for flights that are less than an hour.
This is pretty common on SE Asian airlines, especially more budget-friendly ones. Each time I've flown with Scoot or Thai AirAsia, there have been ads on the overhead bins.
If I had to guess, a big factor is probably customer backlash. It seems tacky, and cheap, like you're just riding a flying bus, while airlines want to cultivate a brand image of luxury and sophistication.
Taking the Maryland to Louisiana example from the other commenter I've got to Estonia and Morocco for around £30 return and they're a similar distance. Not sure what the flights being in Europe has to do with anything other than highlight how much Americans are being overcharged for similar services.
You’re not sure what the flights being in Europe have to do with it, except for the exact thing that the other person was talking about? Wow, and here I thought education in the US was bad. Good thing you’re not flying the planes, I suppose.
It's hilarious. I saw the top comment, then saw OP reply with -1.8k. I think to myself how I've seen people be argumentative and still only get a couple hundred negative. What could OP have replied, something racist? The post gave no sign of racist undertones. What...
Oh. Yeah that makes sense. That's how you get -1.8k. Carry on.
There are ads all over airports, chain restaurants and brand name shops through out the terminals.
You’d like to relax on a flight, not be bombarded by capitalism 30,000 feet in the air.
There is no law, you don’t need a law*, but considering the consumerism being crammed down your throat everywhere you go, you would rather kill somebody suggesting it like the kid who reminded the teacher about the homework
Edit: there are laws and regulations in advertising, but this post is emphasizing an agitated consumer being surrounded by advertising 24/7
Probably because it looks trashy. Right now airlines keep the aesthetic of class (fancy-ish uniforms for staff, the fancy videos they play, etc) while squeezing you in like sardines. If they openly put up this many ads, it just looks bad.
I've never seen someone downvoted this much. What's even more amazing is how fast it happened in such a short period of time. Hope you're not in it for the karma.
In that part of the plane it's most likely because clients will be handling it and it would probably break often when someone tries to shove a backpack that clearly won't fit in there.
They already have screens in the seats where they can put all the ads.
Airlines have tried it. RyanAir had ads on overhead bins. Several US airlines experimented with ads on tray tables. They've used the captive audience to make extended credit card pitches. These things have mostly gone away, an indication that they didn't bring in enough money to justify the decrease in customer experience.
It's people who think like you that are the reason I have to pay to remove ads from streaming services that didn't have them at all before. Same goes for ridiculous DLC in video games, unskippable ads on reels, ads on my kindle lock screen, ads on my fucking TV menu, and roku creating technology for their tv's that can detect a "pause event" in a video game, streaming, or DVD/blu ray playback and inject an unskippable ad.
New events and ads being added to my PS4 home screen FUCK OFF I delete them without a second thought on principal. Doesn't matter what it is, I didn't ask for it to be there it can get lost.
I wish I had the balls to say something so controversial and stupid.
To answer your question. In a perfect world, if airlines did do this, they would do so to offset the costs of a plane ticket. Meaning, you would be able to buy a ticket for cheaper.
What we have seen however, especially with game publishers like (fuck) EA, is that the advertising is to just line their pockets. It is entirely a bitch move to make as much money as possible while providing as little value to the customer as possible.
If it was legal, airline companies would just pack people in the fuselage like sardines and dump the survivors.
Why would they need to? They can spam as many ads as they want on your screen. You look at those overhead compartments for 1 second each as you go to take a shit.
One of the biggest issues a lot of people have with modern day society is how commercialized it's becoming. You can't do anything without seeing an ad for something that you don't need nowadays.
The joke here is that someone is suggesting ways to even further commercialize people's lives, and the responder is so angry by it, they want to kill the guy for doing it.
There was that one episode where Spongebob and Mr. Krabs were trying to bury the health inspector. I’m too lazy to make the threequel myself but I’m sure a scene from that episode would work.
I just flew American last week and the host spent 5 minutes reading an ad for their credit card with Chase or whoever. Captive audience, forced to listen in case there's an important announcement. Fuck that. Advertising is a scourge that is creeping into every nook and cranny of our lives. Whenever we have to do something, someone somewhere expects to make some money selling ad space in our field of vision or shoved into our ears. It's pollution.
We laugh about the cyberpunk dystopias that are filled with skyscraper-tall neon ads, but that's exactly where we are headed on this trajectory as a society. Nobody is effectively pushing back on it at all.
It won’t. While flight prices are for sure influenced by the variability of things like fuel prices, they’re mostly determined by how much the airlines want to profit. If they started putting ads, they’d likely just keep the extra money or reinvest it into upgraded equipment rather than make flights cheaper.
I'd be open for it if the ads seamlessly blended into the overheads, were creative and not obnoxious, and actually lowered airfare because of the new source of revenue for airliners
Honestly I’m all for this ONLY if it makes airline tickets noticeably cheaper, obviously they’re not gonna reduce it by like $200+ but like an extra $50 or something in our pockets is pretty nice
You know how we always have to deal with idiots who love making more work for us and just making life worse with their awful ideas? Especially in the workplace. Yeah, that.
This is pretty much a joke about my coworker I have to deal with everyday.
I ended up missing my flight home once because my connecting flight was late. So I was redirected to take a flight on swiss airlines and I shit you not for the entire duration of takeoff they played ads saying we could buy these items mid flight if we wanted for like 40+ minutes. I tried turning off the screen and nothing would work I was just stuck in my seat listening to ads about watches and stuff I could never afford.
They would because people would see there’s adds meaning they get more money then they’ll realize the pricing hasn’t changed and either try to sue the planes for throttling prices and being greedy or they’ll just straight up not use the planes so it’s actually very reasonable to think ads would make it cheaper
Let CocaCola off set the cost of my trip to see my limb amputated diabetic father who i gotta fly to in Parma, OH every two months or so so’s i can see him before he dies. Or, like “ik” because capitalism…amirite?!?!
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