It's hardly very wrong. United carried 139m passengers in 2013, that's just over $8 per passenger. If they do indeed make more than $22 per passenger on ancill

It's hardly very wrong. United carried 139m passengers in 2013, that's just over $8 per passenger. If they do indeed make more than $22 per passenger on ancillary revenue, that means they loose $14 per passenger if you look at the fare in isolation.