Article: SAS Age-Based Price Discrimination

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SAS Age-Based Price Discrimination

It's not that uncommon for some airlines to offer discounts to children, or even to sell tickets at different prices based on a person's location, the

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[Anna]

Dunno, I'm speculating, but based on my time living in Scandinavia I would say SAS probably faces strong competition from train travel for pax in that age group travelling around Europe.

 

[Austman]

It's been a kind of tradition, well at least for many decades, for the Nordic countries to offer discounted youth fares. With high university or college attendance, a large percentage of the population under 25 are still students.

 

[Happy Trails]

My first flight, in 1972, was on a discounted student fare with KLM.
I had thought they'd become redundant since deregulation and the proliferation of LCCs.

 

[Franky]

Dunno, I'm speculating, but based on my time living in Scandinavia I would say SAS probably faces strong competition from train travel for pax in that age group travelling around Europe.

And after what France has just done with their short-haul flight regulations, rail travel may become more popular.

 

[clifford]

Back in the late 60's when I was under 21, I sometimes picked up a youth standby fare for £5 for BEA's flight from LHR to MAN on a BAC-111.

I thought this was great, and it was probably a good investment by BA, as I'm now a Gold with BAEC.

So I don't have any problem at all with airlines offering discounts to young people.

 

[Big John]

So I don't have any problem at all with airlines offering discounts to young people.

As a parent, I don't have a problem with this either !

It would make family holidays more economical.

 

[RMF]

Back in 1970 at 21yo, i took a Qantas youth based cheap fair to London with a 12 month stopover in South Africa. It was called the 'Pacesetter' fare and was significantly cheaper than regular fares at the time, about $399 IIRC. QF to JHB and SA to LHR.

 

[TripleB]

Finnair used to do dirt cheap domestic youth standby fares. You paid for your ticket at the counter in the airport and they gave you a standby boarding pass - you were allowed through to the gate area but had to wait until the end of boarding before you were allowed on.

Back in ~2002 I had a great day out flying HEL-VAA-KOK-HEL on ATR72s and DC9s.

The flights posted to QFF as full fare economy too.