ST Forum: SIA, stop price discrimination against single travellers

Seems like there will be more posts on ridiculously funny things people complain about as I read the online forum of The Straits Times (aka letters not worth publishing in the paper :/ Okay sorry that sounded mean but heh. srsly. :D )


SIA, stop price discrimination against single travellers
WITH online booking and e-ticketing, I cannot fathom why Singapore Airlines (SIA) continues to charge higher fares for single travellers.

Whether it is one person or two people travelling, it makes no difference in terms of administrative cost, since it is the traveller who does the booking online and printing of the e-ticket.

For a return ticket to Auckland, it costs the single traveller about $450 more than what it will cost him if he books the ticket jointly with another traveller.

It will surely benefit SIA to stop practising price discrimination against the single traveller as many single travellers like myself would definitely consider flying with our national carrier when this policy is changed.

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Eh. If you can't afford SIA, then use another airline. Charging in such a manner is a business strategy thingie. For example, eating places. Doesn't mean an eatery is started in Singapore, means it must charge prices that "heartlanders can afford" right. They can choose how they want to position themselves, what their target audience is, and therefore how much they want to charge. If you can't afford it, go to the hawker center (which I like) or Mac Donald's. Spend within your means.

See, that's why you can't always take in everything people say. People don't always talk sense, and sometimes, people like to find things to complain about. When people put you down, or suggest things, consider it because it might be true. But when you evaluate it and decide that it's actually nonsense and not worth listening to, don't let it get you down! But if you, like SIA, know what you're all about, then you don't actually have to think about a comment such as the above given. This is because SIA knows itself well. It knows its aims and what its all about.

In the same way, if you know who you are, what you're all about, and who you belong to (God), when criticism comes your way, when the giants come and try scare you with their big-body-small-brains, you have nothing to fear. This reminds me of what Adriel taught at YM last Sunday -

1 Samuel 17:45-47
David said to the Philistine, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those who gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give all of you into our hands."

David - a young lad of about 15 - who dared to speak in such a way to Goliath the giant who was about twice his height. Surely it was because he knew who he was in God, and he knew the power of his God.

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Well a few people replied to that letter above, some with understanding, and others with as much understanding as the writer of the letter. The best reply, depending on how you define best, was "Don't book online la.. buy from travel agents cheaper..."