{"id":9369,"date":"2013-08-07T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T13:44:35","slug":"the-economics-of-airline-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-airline-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Airline Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/080713_1337_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eliza Ronalds-Hannon wrote an article that examined a couple things about airplane food. First up, the history of the service:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Airlines used to once be tightly regulated, and this led to uniform stable prices. The only way to compete and differentiate was through amenities such as hot multi-course meals.<\/li>\n<li>Some airlines even offered free airline-branded cigarettes.<\/li>\n<li>The meals became so extravagant that soon airplanes couldn&#8217;t make them on board. Instead during the technical stops that planes frequently had to make back in the era, passengers disembarked and were fed at a special restaurant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of that however ended once airlines began to start competing on price. The other half of the article looked at how peanuts became an airline staple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Southwest started offering low-cost flights by getting rid of in-flight meals entirely. They marketed themselves as the &#8220;peanut airline&#8221; and as a marketing stunt gave peanuts to the passengers.<\/li>\n<li>The trend stuck and soon all airlines were offering free peanuts.<\/li>\n<li>But in the hyper-competitive world of the airline industry, executives soon realized that even these were introducing real costs. Delta calculated that a one-cent increase in peanut prices could increase costs by $610,000 a year.<\/li>\n<li>There were also concerns about passengers who had nut allergies.<\/li>\n<li>Now peanuts can be bought on most airlines \u2013 but the small bags that are purchased for $3 cost the airline about 7 cents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/112310\/free-peanuts-on-airplanes-started-out-as-a-marketing-ploy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/112310\/free-peanuts-on-airplanes-started-out-as-a-marketing-ploy\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliza Ronalds-Hannon wrote an article that examined a couple things about airplane food. First up, the history of the service: Airlines used to once be tightly regulated, and this led to uniform stable prices. The only way to compete and differentiate was through amenities such as hot multi-course meals. Some airlines even offered free airline-branded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9369","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\/2013\/08\/080713_1337_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369","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=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9372,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/9372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}