Originally Posted by
GPullR
Honest question. If a company pays employees the same as others, fuel costs what it does, and aircraft cost what they do, what's makes an lcc work? You can't charge $49 for tickets when your operating costs are the same as everybody. Business model doesn't work. You can only count on so many people not realizing they have to pay for bags.
Higher density + charging for bags etc goes a long way. Also prices for tickets are inevitably going to go up across the board at every airline in one way or another. Edit* Think about it this way, if both the CA and FO get a cumulative $200 an hour raise and there are 200 pax on board, the price per ticket would only have to go up $1 per hour of flight time! Not to mention pilots aren’t the only ones getting big raises with the current inflationary environment.