"John Harper" wrote in
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Just because companies have thought about things doesn't
mean they got it right (and I really DO know from
experience!).

My local pilot shop was selling 200 packs of CA charts
per month at $35 (or so) each. There were never any
left at the end of the month so I guess that wasn't an issue.
How many of those people will buy a subscription? Not
many is my guess, they'll just buy NOS instead. Across
the whole country that looks like significant revenue to
me.

So I still think this was a dumb decision, even given your list
of possible reasons why they may have made it.

John

"C J Campbell" wrote in
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How do you know all this inside thinking by the folks at Jeppesen?


I don't, of course. But that does not mean that I can't make an
educated guess as to what is going on. I will bet that my points are
pretty close
to
what Jeppesen was thinking -- far closer than the assumed "what were
they thinking" random business decision....





My local pilot shop told me yesterday that Jeppesen is going to start
supplying the Airway Express packs again.

There has been a big increase in subscription prices. I just got my
renewal form from Jeppesen and the increase is over 25%. Prior to this
year, the highest annual increase was 6% and most years it was between 3
to 5%.

Jeppesen has cheapened the Airway Express subscription. One of the things
I liked about it was that it was a complete replacement of the old pack.
Now, they've divided it into two parts. Part I is all the informational
pages AND the enroute charts. These are replaced only as needed via
specific page update. The approach plates are in part II which is
completely replaced every 8 weeks.

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Marty Shapiro
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