See What's Become Of Them Without Carrie
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US Airways wants to make the most out of a nauseating situation. The Tempe, Ariz.-based airline plans to sell advertisements on its air-sickness bags - those pint-sized expandable envelopes tucked between the in-flight magazines and safety cards.
"They're in every back seat pocket," said spokesman Phil Gee. "We figure while it's there, why don't we make it multipurpose?"
Passengers should see the new, commercialized sickness bags in September, he said.
The ads are just the latest initiative the company has used to squeeze out a bigger profit.
America West, which merged with US Airways last year, had the first advertisements in the industry on tray tables, the first airline gift cards and the first in-flight meals for sale.
"Little things like that work," said Michael Boyd, president of the Boyd Group, an aviation consulting group in Evergreen, Colo. "Barf bags have a lot of shelf life - people aren't barfing as much in planes as they used to."
posted by Tramp at
Monday, July 24, 2006
2 Comments:
no need to use them when they aren't feeding you....they also want to sell the tray table space to advertisers.....this extra money raised is not to lower tickets, or raise employee salaries, but to pad the top management pockets even fuller!
As long as the rulers are happy, who cares about the peons.
Wait, that was the Roman Empire.
Not much has changed, has it?
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