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For many events, the demographics lean toward age groups where people have jobs with work schedules that aren't known more than a few weeks in advance. The init
by rurcliped 5mo ago
For many events, the demographics lean toward age groups where people have jobs with work schedules that aren't known more than a few weeks in advance. The initially planned friend group (e.g., four people) can have little overlap with who is actually free on the event date and actually attends. Also, if the event has assigned seating, people buying their own tickets typically has the adverse outcome that you can't sit together.
- dghlsakjg 5mo agoThe rebuttal is: works fine on airplanes (minus abusive change fees for economy seats)
- hgoel 5mo agoMost flights are available at high frequencies (on the order of days, weeks) compared to concerts (once a year or so). You also don't care as much about sitting together on a plane.
- ipaddr 5mo agoYou care just as much on a plane. Sitting beside wife/friend => stranger
- hgoel 5mo agoI disagree, if you can't get seats with your friends in a concert, you might just not go because the social aspect is part of the experience, but if you can't get neighboring seats on a plane, you'd (or at least I would) just tolerate it since you would still get to be together at the main event (the destination).
- mrWiz 5mo agoThis position sounds bonkers to me. I don’t care at all about who I sit next to on a plane but like to see concerts with friends.