Andrey Nikulin: "Victory"

“The message about the unexpected and serious change in the rules for transporting hand luggage“ Aeroflot ”can be called the“ news of the day ”not because of some extremity of the event, but precisely because of its typicality for modern Russia,” writes philosophy teacher on his Facebook page.

"Indeed, if you look back - it is clear that, most likely, preparation for this step was purposeful and took several years.

Firstly, testing of both personnel and consumer reactions with the help of their own Victory Airlines, then lobbying for changes in transport legislation, then unexpected, “without declaring war”, introducing new rules in their most rigid performance. Like, the guys relaxed, but it was not necessary, you won’t be lusting with us. Moreover, all stages were under the cover of paid (from our air tickets) PRAR.

The stage with the "victory" was voiced in the style of "rush of rogue" that they still want for that kind of money, and if you need comfort and peace, pay and fly a premium "Aeroflot", which is why it is more expensive.

The stage with amendments in the legislation on the transportation of hand luggage was drowned out by the comforting "you, dear clients of Aeroflot, this will not affect, you have already paid all your own on the ticket."

Well, here is the finale. Rules for the carriage of baggage in the cabin from the "Victory" on the price tag of Aeroflot - Profit!

Moreover, all this goes under the cover of the “requirements for the fulfillment of the same“ legislation on transportation ”and in fulfillment of the desires of certain abstract“ dissatisfied passengers ”who suffer from the Bauls in the plane. If earlier they transferred arrows to the“ poverty ”, now they will try to“ lamers ”.

The stinginess of a new measure to its authors, I suspect, is obvious. Therefore, they tried to crank everything in a situation of minimal noise and announcement, maybe it would carry it. Although this logic is strange and only gives the incompetence of “innovators” - taking into account the formed nucleus of permanent passengers, who for years fly with the same set of bags and things and here, bam, fall on an additional payment of 2.5 thousand rubles to hundreds of dollars.

Even more beautiful, but also more realistic, the situation when you fly one way according to the old rules, and back the same company shakes the same baggage in the most stringent form from you.

What can I say - all this looks disgusting from the outside. But for Russia, quite commonplace and ordinary. Whenever someone begins to “optimize” and affectionately tries to reassure you that nothing is good to happen - strain, with a high probability, they are going to fuck you.

True, the problem is that in addition to tension, there is usually nothing to do. Before bending you, usually the "domestic manufacturer" prudently pushes competitors and establishes a full or partial monopoly. So you can scream and branch your legs, but there is nowhere to go anyway.

Like us now, the choice is simple: either “victory”, or “victory”, or a couple by a miracle of surviving airlines that will not fail to use the creative developments of competitors. In principle, that's all.

We can try to raise a noise or quietly shit them, choosing bourgeois companies at least for foreign routes, but in general, the alternative palette is small. Here we need an integrated approach and change of the entire system ...

Py. SY. Want to save money, here is a simple advice. Stop biting the fierce millions into the PR of the company, which you have already destroyed, and compensate for the penny from these amounts that you are going to pull out of the pockets of bewildered and angry passengers. "