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A tribute to my friend, the late travel media icon Arthur Frommer
The legendary U.S. travel journalist and entrepreneur Arthur Frommer passed away November 18 at the age of 95. Born in Virginia and with an early boyhood in a small town in Missouri, Arthur was a lawyer who became a pioneering and great travel journalist, and who will be remembered as having helped open the joys of travel to the masses. While serving in the U.S. Army in Europe in the 1950s, he got the travel bug, came out with a travel guide for servicemen, and followed up in 1957 with…
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Wrong. All the attention yesterday was on the other coast where the powerless Carnival Splendor was finally docking in San Diego to a media frenzy.
So it goes.
Why did you suggest they sell ads/commercials on the in-flight entertainment? I appreciate being able to listen to hours of music without commercial interruption. I like watching TV shows and films without commercials.
Two weeks ago I flew from Santo Domingo to New York on Continential. The movie and music were free. The movie was Letters to Juliette. Oddly, the flight down on American I had the same movie.
The US-based airlines seem to be waaaaay behind other airlines. I typically fly Air Canada. On their planes, each seat has a TV screen. You have a choice of about 50 films and 50 television programs. This is commercial free - at least during the show. Each time you click on a new program there that damn, annoying Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce credit card commercial of old female friends rushing to surprise the other in a vineyard in Tuscany.
Cathy Pacific, Lufthansia, Air France - free entertainment at your seat and no commercials or ads.
How were they charging for the entertainment? Was this to turn on the system at your seat or for a headset? I ask because I travel with my own noise-reducing set. And a book.
I am a frequent flier, a full-time travel writer and consumer affairs reporter for the prominent website JohnnyJet.com.
On 9 Nov., I flew on your flight CO 699 from Nassau to EWR, connecting with CO 111 to Cleveland.
I was flabbergasted to discover that on both flights (and the first one was 3 hours long), there was not a single entertainment option that was complimentary – not even an audio-only channel for music!
Whether you wanted simple music or a recent hit movie (or anything in between), the charge was a whopping $6.00. And not only was it no less money for a flight that was just 60 minutes in the air – it was advertised as a “special introductory price of just $6.”
Just how high do you eventually expect to hike it?
It is incredible to me how your greed has blinded you even to obvious revenue-generating opportunities. Many passengers who balk at paying movie theater prices to watch a network television show (with commercials, no less) would welcome the opportunity to tune into a free (music and/or talk) in-flight radio station – which could sell on-air advertising to a captive audience much the same way drive-time radio does.
Of course, such an audio channel would be a terrific way to promote Continental’s vacations, travel partners and credit cards as well.
I could give you many more ideas for content, both audio and visual, that would cost neither you nor your passengers anything -- and that you could repackage at a profit.
Clearly, however, it is apparent you are interested not in satisfying your customers – only in ripping them off.
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