Tech Won't Save Us

How Data Is Changing Air Travel w/ Amanda Mull

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Paris Marx is joined by Amanda Mull to discuss the data-informed decisions that are changing the way we all experience air travel, mostly for the worse.

Amanda Mull is a senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Amanda wrote about the changing flying experience for Bloomberg and the big investments being made in airport lounges for The Atlantic.
  • Legacy airlines are taking budget customers with the ultracheap fares.
  • In the US, budget airlines are beginning to offer premium seats and other amenities to attract more premium customers.

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