Analysis on Price Discrimination in Airplane Tickets

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.210712.023How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pricing Strategy, Price Discrimination, Airplane Tickets, Airlines

Abstract

With the development of the airline business and living standard, an increasing number of people choose to take airplanes to travel and go business because it has several advantages. But people are always confused about the price of airline tickets, why people get different prices with other consumers on the same flight, even the consumer in the next seat. This paper will explain this phenomenon, examining the theory of the strategy, and how it applied in the airline industry by using data and references of airline price tickets. Price discrimination is found as a strategy that can help to increase profits. The price discrimination strategy is commonly based on different identities of passengers, different travel times and different booking time.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xintong Jiang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/07/12
TI  - Analysis on Price Discrimination in Airplane Tickets
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Economic Development and Business Culture (ICEDBC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 135
EP  - 139
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210712.023
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210712.023
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