Wendover Productions
6 HN recommenders · recommended in 10 months, 2017–2025
11:38 · 12M views · Mar 14, 2017
Wendover Productions explains how airlines make money from different cabin classes and why premium seats matter so much to profits. It also touches on how this shaped decisions such as the decline of supersonic travel.
HN commenters recommend it as an in-depth, accessible look at airline class economics and revisit it in many discussions about airlines.
11 comments from Hacker News
If anyone finds the operation of airlines a fascinating topic, you might like Wendover Productions: [LINK] How airlines price flights [LINK] The little plane war [LINK] Why planes don't fly faster [LINK] The economics of Airline Class this video How airlines schedule flights [LINK] I just recently found the channel. So much good stuff. (My unrelated favorite is [LINK] How the US government will survive doomsday.)
Would highly recommend the YouTube video below [0] from Wendover, which went pretty in-depth on the economics of airline classes a while ago, and how first-class was the least profitable for the airlines. :) [0] this video
Highly recommend Wendover's videos on Airline economics, this specific one is about the various classes in Airline seats this video
Economy class seats generally speaking will earn the least amount of money to an airline, so this idea would actually likely be the most unprofitable option. To make it truly profitable, you convert the plane to First class, but then you'll need to fill all those seats. Wendover Productions had a great video on this a few years ago: this video
There is also another Wendover one explaining the economics or airlines classes and it talks about specifically why supersonic flights went into oblivion: this video