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Alok Bhartia Warns How Airlines Trick You into Paying More

You can not do much about it, but airlines have been ripping you off for a long time. Alok Bhartia will show you the strategy that airlines employ in order to cash out more from the customers. So, prepare to be red-pilled fellow travelers, there might come a time when we will have to resist this atrocity!

Rejecting the advance(s) will get you worst seats If you do not pay in advance, you are most likely to be given the worst seats on the flight. You will also have to cough up some bucks if you do not reserve a seat in advance. This is why the communists win.

Clogged! Throwing in the extra seats is a huge inconvenience for fliers. Remember the leg-space airplanes had thirty years back? We want that back! According to Alok Bhartia says, the airline companies are playing smarter. Adding more seats means more passengers and more passengers means more money. To them, it does not matter if you’re travelling to Hawaii like a big pea in a pod. What really matters is that the airlines are making more money. We wish the trips were more like chips in an over-aerated wafer packet.

Charging money for wasting your time The boarding queue can be avoided if the travelers are boarded according to their seat allotment or from both ends. Too bad they can not charge a priority boarding fee on that kind of arrangement.

Overbooking seats Remember John Dao and the United Airlines incident? He was a victim of this dirty airline trick. Flights overbook their seats, that is, they book more than one person for a single seat. This is done to avoid losses from no-shows. If all the passengers who booked the same seat show up, all except one passengers are shifted to another flight. In United Express Flight 3411, John Dao refused to let go of the seat. You have all seen the video.

‘Basic’ Propaganda Fliers are shamed into not buying a basic economy class ticket. Seats that are cheap do not offer a lot of options. Adding to it is the embarrassment of- what will everyone else think, that makes the travelers shell out more.

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This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Alok Bhartia .