Amazon Offers $25 Plane Tickets for Holiday Travel to 5,000 Students and Young Adults (cnet.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/05/022253/amazon-offers-25-plane-tickets-for-holiday-travel-to-5000-students-and-young-adults
- Source link: https://www.cnet.com/deals/amazon-offers-students-and-young-adults-25-plane-tickets-for-holiday-travel/
> Last year, Amazon offered the $25 flight deals to Prime Student members, but this holiday season, the retail giant is expanding the limited-time offer to those enrolled in its Prime for Young Adults [3]plan ... Once again, Amazon is joining with [travel-booking site] [4]StudentUniverse to offer several thousand $25 flights you can book between December 9, 2024, and January 14, 2025. The offer is for a one-way domestic ticket within the U.S., including Washington, DC, while supply lasts. Amazon said it's making available 1,000 tickets to Prime Student and Young Adult subscribers each day for five days, starting at 10 a.m. PST on December 9.
[1] https://amazon.com/25flights
[2] https://www.cnet.com/deals/amazon-offers-students-and-young-adults-25-plane-tickets-for-holiday-travel/
[3] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-prime-student
[4] https://www.studentuniverse.com/
One-way tickets? (Score:2)
So, is this for students who are moving back into their parents' basements?
"Mom, Dad, Merry Christmas! I'm back!"
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You do understand this offer is given by amazon for domestic tickets? what does it have to do With Trump?
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> So, is this for students who are moving back into their parents' basements?
> "Mom, Dad, Merry Christmas! I'm back!"
Hopefully, otherwise it sounds like a gimmick since those are one-way tickets. Then the students or young adults will have to buy another one-way ticket at full price and then all the airplane companies need to do is sell the one way ticket at say 85% percent of a two way ticket. So, maybe fly one way then take the bus to get back or something.
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>> So, is this for students who are moving back into their parents' basements?
>> "Mom, Dad, Merry Christmas! I'm back!"
> Hopefully, otherwise it sounds like a gimmick since those are one-way tickets. Then the students or young adults will have to buy another one-way ticket at full price and then all the airplane companies need to do is sell the one way ticket at say 85% percent of a two way ticket. So, maybe fly one way then take the bus to get back or something.
You are illustrating just how people can be ungrateful no matter what.
I would look at this as "I can get a great discount for the way home. if tickets normally cost 200 each way, I'm only spending 225 dollars instead of 400 dollars." I'm saving 175 dollars. Thanks Amazon!"
Others will say "Fscking Amazon, I need a 25 dollar ticket both ways. No wonder people hate Amazon! Amazon is always screwing us over!
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YMMV but I just did a quick search for New York - Los Angeles
one way: $332
return: $418
That's simply what I was talking about...
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I would imagine there might be a few people like that taking advantage of it, but I suspect the intention is that most of the customers will pay full price for the return ticket.
Hook em early. (Score:2)
Wouldn't want young people to realize air travel is less green than taking the bus. The air lines must be in on this discount.
- or train, but I am assured the rail system in the US sucks.
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Yes, it sounds rather light-handed with 25 USD for something that may account for a whole year of CO2 emissions on a sustainable level (1 ton / year) [1]. It's a bit better in the EU - here 18 years old may have the chance to win one month of free rail travel (with an Interrail pass). Discovering neighbor countries (which EU likes for integration) and learning more sustainable habits - trains in EU have quite low climate impact in general.
[1] A good tool to check emissions is the Flight Emissions Map: [1]http [flightemissionmap.org]
[1] https://www.flightemissionmap.org/
D.C. is in the U.S.? (Score:2)
> within the U.S., including Washington, DC
Gee, I didn't realize Washington, DC is in the U.S. Good thing they clarified this.
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IAD and DCA are both in Virginia. BWI is in Maryland.
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Everybody knows Washington DC is the capital city of the state of Washington!
DC is not a State (Score:2)
Well DC is not a State if that's what you were thinking, and the residents have less representation since they can't vote for The House or Senate while Congress collectively governs the little people without rights to govern themselves.
For example DC residents overwhelmingly voted to legalize weed years ago, while Congress won't allow that to happen. If you live in one of the modern apartment buildings, you're not allowed to smoke weed in your own house for example. The equity capital apartment building own
Amazon Delivery (Score:2)
They'll drop you off at the wrong destination but text a photo of your arrival. When you try to ask for a refund, they'll require you to find a way to get a return flight from your original destination.
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Well it indeed IS age discrimination in the sale of products and services.
But of course there is no law against this. Young Adult discounts, Student discounts, and Senior discounts, are some examples of discrimination that there are not any laws prohibiting, And it's a fairly common practice that companies will offer some of these types of promotions.