The Dutch are happy to pay extra for more space in the plane
About 70% of the Dutch are happy to pay an extra amount of between 25 and 200 for an empty seat next to them on the plane. This is evident from a study by D-reizen, which was recently carried out among 385 Dutch people.
The Dutch are not stingy when it comes to extra space in the plane. About 35% are happy to pay, on top of the return price, between 25 and 50 extra for an empty seat next to them. A group of 17% is even willing to pay more than 50 for this. It can get even crazier, because 12% want to pay more than 100 extra for this and 6% even more than 200.
Men value extra seating space more than women
It is striking in this study that approximately 40% of the women do not have an extra euro to spare for an extra seat, compared to approximately 20% of the men.
Annoyances while flying
In addition to not enough seating space, the Dutchman is bothered by a number of other things during the flight. Noisy fellow passengers are number 1 at 29%, followed by kicking or pushing the seat by the person sitting behind them at 20%.
Irritations while booking a ticket
The fact that booking an airline ticket is not always easy is evident from the response of the respondents to the question what they find most annoying when booking. A price that is too high is the most disturbing for 42%. Uncertainty about the total price and poor service from the provider are the next most common irritations.
Think this has been known to the airlines for years.
20 years ago I paid 150 guilders extra at EVA air for a premium economy seat, now that is almost 250 euros. I'm happy to talk about it, that extra space and those extra kilos that you can take with you
Do some research on this.
385 people asked, probably customer of D-travel.
So those are people who take a holiday flight. For many of them, that one flight to Tormolinos or something like that will be the only flight of that year.
If you look at KLM on European flights, 33 of the approximately 10 rows in the aircraft are reserved for business and economy comfort. The first three rows for BC, the remaining seven for EC. And some seats at the emergency exit with extra legroom.
See e.g. https://www.klm.com/travel/nl_nl/prepare_for_travel/on_board/our_aircraft/boeing_737_900.htm
On this page, KLM indicates that rows 1 to 7 are for BC, but in practice this is often rows 1 to 3). BC is often barely filled on European flights.
So 30 rows, 9 of which are affordable by Jan met de Pet for some extra legroom. So about 33% have money left over for extra legroom. If it were more, the number of EC seats in the aircraft would have been expanded long ago.
At KLM, EC only means that you get 8 cm more legroom (10 cm on intercontinental flights).
The seats are otherwise identical to the regular Economy seats. That is sometimes different with other companies. Air France Premium Economy on international flights is really much better.
I too am happy to pay more for extra space.
Eva air is wonderful to fly with and I regret that they are doing away with it.
They have wonderfully spacious seats and the legroom is also generous, especially if your predecessor lies down, there is still plenty of room left.
By the way, I wonder why people want to be transported like herrings in a barrel (read as cheaply as possible).
That 'abolition' of Premium Economy at EVA has not taken place.
Oh well, Thea, what do you think why people want to be transported like herring in a barrel?
I think because everyone can only spend their euro once, so it's good for you that you can afford to travel a little more luxuriously.
Incidentally, it's not too bad that herring in a barrel feeling, you just have to travel by train during rush hour then you only know what a herring in a barrel feeling is, but you probably never travel by train, and if you do if so, it must be first class.
And don't forget if there weren't so many economy passengers your ticket would be much, much more expensive.
Dear Rob, you can go a long way in your story, but on one and the last point, the reality is different.
Isn't it the case that money is made from business class and first class passengers, so that your economy seat can be cheaper.
Jan Beute.
That reasoning is not entirely true.
The price of an economy class seat is the maximum amount an airline can charge for it.
There is an extremely complicated computer program behind it, which does its utmost to sell all the seats in the plane for the highest possible price.
A trick of KLM was that you could never choose 2 cheap flight days.
Outward journey date and return date were never visible at the same time.
If you chose a cheap outward journey, no cheap return journey was available.
If you first looked for a cheap return flight, the cheap outward journey was gone.
It may still work that way.