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When I worked for a travel company I saw a lot of fares that had lots of taxes and fees on them. Some flights brought fewer dollars to the airline than everyone
by coldcode 8y ago
When I worked for a travel company I saw a lot of fares that had lots of taxes and fees on them. Some flights brought fewer dollars to the airline than everyone else. You pay for both airports, the cities/states/provinces/countries they are in and places you go thru airspace to and anyone else who can put in a claim. The most I ever saw was around 12 on a single segment. The final cost of an airline ticket supports a village.
- jlarocco 8y agoBut that's how everything works. When I buy a gallon of milk at the grocery store, the store gets a cut, the delivery truck driver gets a cut, the gas station he uses gets a tiny cut, the farmer gets a cut, the bottler gets some, etc. Despite all that, the price I see is a single number. The weird thing with airline tickets is that the airlines break the price out into two pieces and call one the fare and the other a processing fee, as if that distinction makes any difference to anybody but them.
- dboreham 8y agoIt isn't just airlines. Other industries have discovered this dark pattern (presumably there is a class in "Dr Evil MBA" where they teach it). E.g look at your phone bill.