{"id":12262,"date":"2015-03-20T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12262"},"modified":"2015-03-20T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:26:24","slug":"the-economics-of-airplane-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-airplane-models\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Airplane Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/032015_1331_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scott Mayerowitz explained the importance of model airplanes in the airline industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Models of commercial airplanes \u2013 typically between one and two feet long \u2013 are used to initiate sales conversations or close deals.<\/li>\n<li>They can pique the interest of the buyer. Executives will go in to make a sale with high quality models of the planes they&#8217;re trying to sell.<\/li>\n<li>They&#8217;ll then leave the planes with the potential target as they&#8217;re more memorable than simple business cards, and unlike other gifts, usually are displayed prominently instead of locked in a closet.<\/li>\n<li>Airbus, one of the two leading aircraft manufacturers, took in orders for about 1,500 airplanes last year and ordered 30,000 models of its aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>The models first became popular after World War 2 when companies tried to encourage travelers to try flying on an airplane.<\/li>\n<li>The models \u2013 often with an interior cut out \u2013 helped potential passengers understand what the flying experience would be like.<\/li>\n<li>One major company sells models costing up to $1,500 each. All in all it sells 15,000 models, generating revenues of $10 million a year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the practice, see some photos showing how the models are made, and find out other details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/todayinthesky\/2015\/03\/18\/airline-worlds-tiny-secret-infatuation-with-model-planes\/24947785\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/todayinthesky\/2015\/03\/18\/airline-worlds-tiny-secret-infatuation-with-model-planes\/24947785\/\">Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Mayerowitz explained the importance of model airplanes in the airline industry: Models of commercial airplanes \u2013 typically between one and two feet long \u2013 are used to initiate sales conversations or close deals. They can pique the interest of the buyer. Executives will go in to make a sale with high quality models of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/032015_1331_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12266,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions\/12266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}