Call me a cynic, but....

And how much will they lose through not receiving £36 airport tax a
seat by a passenger not travelling?

 

That's making assumptions that people will choose not to fly for the
reasons of hand luggage restrictions. We don't know what effect this
will have, yet.

I'm merely playing devil's advocate, doing some quick back of fag packet
calculations, and have come to the conclusion that airside retail are
making a killing from the current restrictions. It doesn't take much of
an imagination to see that there may well be restrictions left in place
that make the current short-term profiteering a long term situation.

There's always someone who'll see an opportunity to take extra money
from any situation.

 

*ding*

All stuff that's booked in needs to be labelled. This stuff needs to be
scanned at every stage from when it's checked in to when it goes onto
the 'plane. So in a instant, their workload has significantly
increased. This doesn't take into account the actually handling,
scanning, etc, etc.

As a matter of interest, I'm off to see the way it all works behind the
scenes in Paris - CDG on Wednesday, as the AF baggage crews use my
company's equipment.

 

So, no surprises there then.

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Yes it does. Don't look at it from the security checks whilst walking
through to departures. You need to look at the extra workload that goes
on behind the scenes for all booked in baggage.

 

I think that's bollox. 'specially IME.

 

I don't know what the percentages are for business travel compared to
leisure travel, but in Europe I'd reckon it'd be pretty high. At the
moment, 99% of my trips are business and I see mostly business
travellers on my flights. Most of them are either carrying a PC OR a
light travel case that will fit into the overhead bins.

I reckon that the hold luggage is minimal in most cases.

Oh and the fact that Air France have installed a load more electronic
ticket points (mainly used by hand luggage travellers only), points to
my assumption being correct.

 

<waves> I won't fly long haul until they stop this nonsense. I'm still
considering short flights.

 

Question. Given that the airside shops aren't run by BAA, but by WH
Smiths, Dixons etc just how will BAA make a "killing", bad choice of
phrase notwithstanding?

 

Just as ebay became flooded with confiscated knives after the previous
ban, I foresee a glut of filched ipods on the market.

 

BAA just increased the amount of hand luggage they allow on their
flights. It's a good selling point.

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Not sure if I'm missing a joke here or what. First, BAA don't do
flights, they're the airport operator. Secondly, neither they, nor BA,
have any changed guidlines on their websites.

So what you on about?
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Depends on the deal they have with the retailers, but I know some work
on a fixed fee + percentage of turnover.

 

While you're there if you see an AF employee can you ask why they're
being so fucking shit with their Business class seat rates from SCL
via CDG to LHR?

Ta.

 

So you're not going to address it the valid points and examples? I'm
pleased that you're admitted defeat.

Yeah - My company deals with more than TEN passengers a year and 100%
of those have a suitcase with them in addition to their hand baggage.
One or two of those TEN people will even ask for more baggage lables
so they can pre-address an extra suitcase.

 

I'm not sure. IIRC BA, on some routes, will permit a piece of hand
baggage up to 8Kg to be taken into the hold if you book their World
Traveller Plus seats. WTP is their Long Haul premium economy product.

 

So I was right to assume that most people fly with hold luggage, then?

 

SCL?

 

This is the problem: People going on holiday don't make up more than
half of the people who travel on flights.

Out of the last ten flights I've taken I only took a suitcase on one
of them as most of them were quick visits to places to sort things out
or troubleshoot abroad.

People that fly from Heathrow to Glasgow at 8am and back to Heathrow
at 6pm aren't likely to be checking anything in.

 

Santiago. Little fuckers. I hate Air France. The only reason I had
to move the flights from Lufthansa was because LH pulled the route.

I had twenty business class seats on allocation which I was flogging
for a grand a piece, I sold out of those and asked for six more which
I sold for a grand each. I asked for six more and they said "Yes,
have them: But we've shoved the price up by £150!" It's as if I'm
being punished for selling their highest class seats.

Don't worry about it: I'll sort the fuckers out next year.