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> It's made it so that relatively poor people can afford to regularly fly all over the world, which is a relatively new thing. has _it_? do what is _it_ again?
by pasquinelli 1y ago
> It's made it so that relatively poor people can afford to regularly fly all over the world, which is a relatively new thing.
has _it_? do what is _it_ again?
>> All told, is all this chicanery benefiting airlines?
i'm really curious how screwing passengers has done these things.
- daedrdev 1y agoAirlines are actually very low margin business. Thus, all these pricing tactics merely offset the drastically cheaper tickets. It makes sense, their margins are so low that they have to nickel and dime everything to make a small profit in good years and avoid going under next recession.
- carlosjobim 1y agoIf you fit more people onto a flight, you can make more money, while the journey is less comfortable for the passengers.
- pasquinelli 1y agoand if all those people paid the same amount then there would be the same end result, but the situation would have nothing to do with the conversation, so i'm afraid that explains nothing.
- tekla 1y agoBusiness and 1st class subsidizes basically all of Economy class.