Frankly for short haul flights it makes sense. Would it be worth paying double or triple for a three hour flight just to get a full meal? Anyone who truly wants a taste of old time flying can get that with a first class ticket, both in terms of cost and quality.
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SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 months agoYep, you can have it one way or the other…cheap flights or super luxury and only the rich can fly. Planes are not cheap to operate and fuel isn’t free.
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
And CEO bonuses and shareholder dividends must always be high-flying.
x0x7@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But even with that margins are tight, so 99.5% of why your flight is expensive is that planes are not cheap to operate and fuel isn’t free. But we can pretend it’s all the other thing to maintain slave morality.
dan@upvote.au 3 months ago
Delta is paying a dividend of $0.15 per share this quarter. Southwest is paying $0.18. Spirit used to pay $0.10 but I don’t think they do any more.
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
So tight! Can barely afford to keep the plane in the air what with all the stock buybacks.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Lately most airlines are making insane profits from their banking-skymiles partnership deals and less from actual ticket-holders