Originally Posted by
TheWrightStuff
This. A thousand times this. Search cheap on google, and your first dozen results are for cheap airline tickets and cheap hotels. Unfortunately, the airline world appears to be flat to most customers. All they care about is getting from Point A to point B at the lowest rate possible. In an industry where most of your company's income is reliant upon ticket sales and load factor, the airlines struggle to turn a profit unless they can offer the lowest fares to attract the most customers. It's a crappy game and employees often are the least common denominator.
Thanks for the addition, I mean yes republic has shareholders, but filling planes is not the responsibility of republic, it is the marketing of the majors that fills the seats. But rarely is marketing even relavant. Pilots will always get handed the short stick until the mass public realizes that their FO could qualify for food stamps. But even then, the lower the ticket prices are, (set by the legacy) are Going to be the driving force behind ticket sales