Charging for drinks etc.

[chautauqua]

does charging for drinks or food cause you to have to lower fares to stay competitive (keeping a heavy load factor)?

[Seattlepilot]

does charging for drinks or food cause you to have to lower fares to stay competitive (keeping a heavy load factor)?

Ahhh  Chautauqua

[Chavaquiah]

does charging for drinks or food cause you to have to lower fares to stay competitive (keeping a heavy load factor)?

Currently, no.

[chautauqua]

does charging for drinks or food cause you to have to lower fares to stay competitive (keeping a heavy load factor)?

Ahhh  Chautauqua

Yeeeees?

So does everyone just charge a buttload or what?  What does everyone have theirs set to?

[Chavaquiah]

So does everyone just charge a buttload or what?  What does everyone have theirs set to?

Charge too little and you won't be ripping your nice pax as much as you could. Charge too much and watch as most bring their smelly hamburgers from home.

Try to find the best price, the one that maximizes your profits. It's not hard, just takes a little experimenting.

[Seattle]

So does everyone just charge a buttload or what?  What does everyone have theirs set to?

Charge too little and you won't be ripping your nice pax as much as you could. Charge too much and watch as most bring their smelly hamburgers from home.

Try to find the best price, the one that maximizes your profits. It's not hard, just takes a little experimenting.

Its 48.25$ something like that, I usually put 48 and it raises the DOC on that route typically by 2,000 to 4,000, the more on a biggger plane. So, my DOC went from 895,000 to 934,00 on my A320-200 in Private W17!  ;D

[Tiger In Training]

48.25... your a little out.

I have had a look at the profit of each price starting from €1 and adding 1€ each time and i found xx.00, xx.50 and xy.00 all make the same amount.

I am not going to tell you what that is though.

[Seattle]

Trust me, I ve tested it and it starts making less profit above 48$

[Vamerica]

I like just pricing them at reasonable price 

[CHR]

If you price them too high, I wonder how they bring on enough food for a 14 hour flight? I guess they just all starve.

[yourefired]

So does everyone just charge a buttload or what?  What does everyone have theirs set to?

Charge too little and you won't be ripping your nice pax as much as you could. Charge too much and watch as most bring their smelly hamburgers from home.

Try to find the best price, the one that maximizes your profits. It's not hard, just takes a little experimenting.

Dude, you're an international carrier (or plan to be). You shouldn't be charging for food. *gives away yummy snacks (blue potato chips, cheese/crackers, ice cream!, etc.) and watches all of BPA's customers run to jetBlue*
Its 48.25$ something like that, I usually put 48 and it raises the DOC on that route typically by 2,000 to 4,000, the more on a biggger plane. So, my DOC went from 895,000 to 934,00 on my A320-200 in Private W17!  ;D

[Tiger In Training]

Trust me, I ve tested it and it starts making less profit above 48$

More like 23E

[Seattle]

Nope, I just tested 23 it was lower, I test 47.00, 47.99, 48.01 and 49 and they ball too were lower 

btw, We only charge people flying on last minute fairs, however since there are so many people, they book at the lst minute, making get ba ton of money!

[Tiger In Training]

Again I try, and find 23€ makes the most money. Maybe there is a random variation between airlines? How unfair?

[LOT 737-300]

Well, either way, I possibly wouldn't charge more than 10 Euros for everything either way, though in my W9 airline, I only charge for Alcohol and Snacks. Much everything else is provided free (a bit of good ol' 1960s class  .)

If you do think about it, charging higher prices might make long haul with large aircraft a bit more profitable and reasonable.