Originally Posted by
Halon1211
one good hope for the future of ULCC is that the USA’s middle classes will continue to shrink as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
so eventually, these people that are on the fringe with flying a legacy will eventually have to switch over to a ULCC as their relative income dwindles over time.
Doubtful, the opposite is happening; more and more passengers are looking to fly business/first, and pay for it. The article discussing the demise of the ULCC addresses this and how ULCCs might need to offer more products like BFS versus steerage.
And our rates are not that much cheaper,
sometimes higher, than legacy counterparts. They price match us like crazy and our dumb management trolls can’t find a way to compete. Can’t imagine people are saying “if I can get they raise, I can fly legacy, versus NK”