Airplane and airline stuff

[pErvinalia]

Fresh off a victory lap after a better-than-expected earnings report, Delta Air Lines is leaning into AI as a way to boost its profit margins further by maximizing what individual passengers pay for fares.

By the end of the year, Delta plans for 20% of its ticket prices to be individually determined using AI, president Glen Hauenstein told investors last week. Currently, about 3% of the airline’s flight prices are AI-determined, triple the portion from nine months ago.

Over time, the goal is to do away with static pricing altogether, Hauenstein explained during the company’s Investor Day in November.

“This is a full reengineering of how we price and how we will be pricing in the future,” he said. Eventually, “we will have a price that’s available on that flight, on that time, to you, the individual.”

He compared AI to “a super analyst” who is “working 24 hours a day, seven days a week and trying to simulate… real time, what should the price points be?”


While the rollout would be a “multiyear” process, he said, initial results “show amazingly favorable unit revenues.”

Delta accomplishes this pricing through a partnership with Fetcherr, a six-year-old Israeli company that also counts Azul, WestJet, Virgin Atlantic, and VivaAerobus as clients. And it has its sights set beyond flying. “Once we will be established in the airline industry, we will move to hospitality, car rentals, cruises, whatever,” cofounder Robby Nissan said at a travel conference in 2022.

https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-mo ... -a-ticket/

[JimC]

Adam Smith would be proud...

[macdoc]

Adam Smith was wrong
....Nash.

[Tero]

Even CNN journalists can no longer write a clear story. The story should have started with "on takeoff" as it was clearly not in the air yet.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/26/us/denve ... nding-gear

The Denver airport is pretty large, runways long. Once we took a bus to our plane. I joked that "we could just keep going on the bus. We would be in Nebraska pretty soon."

[macdoc]

You should see Dallas Fort Worth....on and on and on.....

[macdoc]

Fifteen-year-old hopes to break record as youngest pilot to fly around world
Byron Waller is smashing records and while the milestone is great, he hopes to use the limelight to raise awareness for other things.

www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

Attempting single engine around the world at 15. Despite having a support pilot….pretty damn impressive.

[Tero]

Mushroom pilot riding in cockpit reaches plea
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -agreement

[Brian Peacock]

[Svartalf]

Adam Smith would be proud...

that's not the "invisible hand" of reasonable market forces and passengers having a rational and well informed solution to choose such flights and companies as best serve them, that's pure corporate greed abusing the fact that passengers CANNOT make a rational and correct choice.

[macdoc]

Adam Smith was wrong .... You do realize dynamic pricing can save the savvy traveller a ton?

AI Overview
Yes, savvy travelers can save a significant amount with dynamic pricing by booking during off-peak times, being flexible with travel dates and times, and taking advantage of real-time deals. Dynamic pricing is a strategy where prices fluctuate based on real-time demand, allowing smart travelers to book flights, hotels, and activities for less when demand is low.

[Svartalf]

I realize it could be used that way, but won't.