Business travelers must buy on time to avoid overbooking and overpayments.
It’s true. For example, if I fly Southwest, I’ll find out that the flight I booked was booked for two hours and I was charged for two extra seats (that would be on the same flight).
Airline companies have been doing this for years. If you are a business traveler and you make a reservation, the airline will charge you the full price. And if you book a flight that is over booked, the airline will charge you for the extra seats and the difference will be added to your total fare. It is this practice that airlines are trying to get out of the way.
Business travelers are the most likely to be the least likely to book a flight. Since they are paying for the seat, they are naturally the least likely to book it. However, that doesn’t mean the airlines won’t try to squeeze extra money out of business travelers. They are the ones who are going to be flying the plane and the airline is going to be charging for the seats and the difference will be added to your bill.
Business travelers are the most likely to book a flight, but that doesn’t mean the airlines wont try to squeeze extra money out of business travelers. They are the ones who are going to be flying the plane and the airline is going to be charging for the seats and the difference will be added to your bill.
Business travelers are the most likely to book a flight, but that doesnt mean the airlines wont try to squeeze extra money out of business travelers. They are the ones who are going to be flying the plane and the airline is going to be charging for the seats and the difference will be added to your bill.
Anecdotally, I have heard a number of people claim that a business traveler will only be charged more because the seat will be filled up. This is one of those reasons why leisure travelers tend to cost the most to fly. Even if no one is sitting in the flight and the seat is occupied, there is still a slight cost to the airline to get the additional business travelers on board.
The situation is not as binary as this. For example, if I go on a business trip and I fly business class and the business seat is full, as I’m sitting there I might only be getting a free seat on the last flight. But if I choose to fly economy and take the business seat, then I will have a seat free all the way through the flight.
As a rule of thumb, airlines charge travelers more because there are fewer layovers, so they have to spend more time traveling for the extra business travelers to be on board. So by the time they get to their destination, they might have to wait a few hours more to catch the last flight.
We’ve been telling airlines and other companies that they need to consider the effects of layovers and other things that can affect travel because their business travelers make up a larger percentage of their daily expenses. They need to think about that and make their travel practices, policies, and practices better.