Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Serious question, because I wasn't here. Everyone loves to tout the 2000 (2001?) contract and how great it was...and we're told we can't compare our rates to inflation adjusted rates from that contract, "because it was an outlier." My assumption is that it was a contract well ahead of our peers at the time? How was that achieved?
Those were times of peak ticket prices. This is a sobering look at the trend of airfare not keeping pace with inflation, aka the Southwest effect.
https://www.bts.gov/content/national...ge-fare-series