Comment on Why do we put up with this crap?

• x0x7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also when was the last time an airline stock paid a dividend?

    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.

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  • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So tight! Can barely afford to keep the plane in the air what with all the stock buybacks.

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• NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Lately most airlines are making insane profits from their banking-skymiles partnership deals and less from actual ticket-holders

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