Listener Questions: Airline tickets, grocery pricing and the Fed

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Dear listeners: You had questions, and we have answers! Today, we're digging into airline fares, buying in bulk at the supermarket and the Fed's wacky (?) district boundaries. It's a listener questions episode!

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:11.7	Daryen Woods!
0:12.7	Whale and Wong!
0:13.8	I am really excited because we have been wanting to do today's indicator episode for a long time.
0:20.2	We have.
0:20.9	It's not just for our awesome listeners, but from our listeners.
0:25.2	That's right. Made for from by sort of.
0:29.4	But you know, really good questions from our listeners about all kinds of economics and financial questions they have in their lives.
0:35.4	So today on the indicator from Planet Money, it is a listener question show.
0:39.8	We're taking on airline prices, buying and bulk at the grocery store, and the federal reserve.
0:45.2	All coming up after the break.
0:51.8	Alright, Whale and why do you start? What's your listener question?
0:54.4	It's all about airline ticket pricing.
0:57.0	Hi, my name is Jimmy Vivar and I'm from Los Angeles.
1:00.8	And what I'm wondering about is how do airlines price their tickets?
1:05.4	They seem to always change and every time you check, it seems to be different.
1:09.4	As somebody buying a lot of plane tickets to go home, I would like to know that too.
1:13.4	So Whale and what did you find?
1:15.0	So in the airline industry, the whole name of the game is selling every seat on every flight for the most money possible.
1:24.0	And companies have developed all kinds of lovers they can pull.
1:27.6	Here's a pretty obvious one.
1:29.4	Selling more expensive fairs for a flight as the departure date gets closer and seats are filling up.
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