How airlines get you to spend more – unless you’re smart
To get better prices on flights, customers need to understand how the shopping experience has been engineered to exploit your biases.
It’s not just you: shopping for airfares is harder than ever. Choosing between basic economy and regular economy fares and navigating add-on fees makes booking more complicated, and that’s no accident.
Airlines are harnessing lessons from a still-emerging academic field known as behavioural economics to nudge customers into spending more.
AP
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