Ed Perkins
Ed Perkins
Edwin Arend Perkins, FRS FRSCis a Canadian mathematician who has been Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia since 1989 and Canada Research Chair in Probability since 2001. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1988 and to the Royal Society in 2007. He won the 2003 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize...
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When a strike prevents them from serving you, they will generally waive the various restrictive rules. There's no law that says they have to, but that's a general business practice.
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In today's travel environment, the more information you have the better. As long as the information is accurate, I don't see any downside for travelers.
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That's a question of personal lifestyle. Lots of people don't like carrying more than $50 or $100. Other people aren't comfortable unless they have $300 or $400.
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The feeling there is that you're getting at least some kind of consensus.
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If one of the big guys goes out, it's going to throw a tremendous load on all the others, and it means seats are going to be very difficult to get.
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As far as the operation of the airline is concerned, almost nothing changes. People keep buying tickets, the airline flights operate as usual, and travelers would be hard-put to know that the bankruptcy ever happened.
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Each airline that's involved sets the prices and some of these differences can be huge.
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It's one of the few times that consumers have the upper hand.
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This is important information that consumers should know before they put their money down on a ticket.
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The travel industry is very interested in building up this holiday season travel market. Part of the reason, of course, is that right now is really a dead time of year for business travel.
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It kind of reminded us of last year. And that's a place we definitely didn't want to go to again.
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The first thing they should do, clearly, is find out what their alternatives might be. What you do depends on how urgent it is that you make that particular trip on that particular day.