Middle Class Airlines

Aviation industry has transformed over the decades. However, their servicing scheme became over complicated and inefficient. I thought about a new airlines company that only focuses on its flight. Has a minimal to no marketing department. Has only one type of seat in the cabin which is optimized for the duration of flight.

Aviation companies offer mileage programs where the upper managers or the sales people of the companies collect the miles. No benefit for the company that pay the bill.  Additionally, they sell goods with the miles collected. These complicated royalty programs increase the cost of an aviation company. My ideal company will not have any royalty program. Will declare prices based on the costs and sell the tickets directly without paying commissions to the agents. The cost of a seat may vary depending on the time of purchase. That makes sense. Saving on the complex royalty program would be a great saving for the company. There would be special agreements with the other airlines, but there would be no mileage earnings.

All the flights will have seats that are thinner and have back rest. Short distance flights will have knee distance calculated for a 190 cm person and same number of seats per row like in an economy class. The seats will not incline. There will be no info display in the cabin but Wi-Fi that broadcast the flight info and the external camera views for the mobile devices. Internet service will be sold for an additional fee. There will be two sections within the cabin. The front will be silent section. The back will be cry room. (Inspired by the cry rooms of the old cinemas in the States. Place for parents with small children.) The curtain separating the two sections will be sound proof.

Middle to long distance flights will have seats that incline close to 160 degrees. There will be more knee room. Again, there will be two sections to separate the noisy and silent area. The variety of food serviced will be minimized, but their quality will be improved instead. There will be no food that makes noise such as hard nuts and chips.

I had once calculated for a long-distance flight seat plan. I replaced all the seats with the standardized middle class seats and calculated the price of each seat. A flight offering only middle class (no economy or first class) could sell the tickets for a 50 percent premium over the economy. Which is a very acceptable premium.