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Don't be too optimistic about "smaller seats meaning lower costs" because it might not. Cereal packages has gotten smaller, but the prices for cereal hasn't go

• jdpedrie 8y ago
  That's a bad comparison. Generally, shrinking the size of a packaged good is a way to compensate for inflation without sticker shock, a huge problem in a very price-sensitive market like groceries. The chief the government measures inflation, in fact, is the Consumer Price Index, which measures the cost of a "basket" of consumer goods. [0] The cost of flying, on the other hand, has fallen dramatically since deregulation. [1] [0] https://www.bls.gov/CPI/ https://www.bls.gov/CPI/ [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-airline-ticket-prices-fell-50-in-30-years-and-why-nobody-noticed/273506/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-air...