Originally Posted by
captnate702
you could easily say that flights are stuff people need more than anything you could buy on Amazon.
if you have to get from Denver to Atlanta what options do you have besides flying? Drive for two days?
You couldn't make that claim without setting up a false equivalency.
CG is talking about market necessity. Low-cost items that customers buy all the time.
You are talking about functional necessity. In this case, a customer's choices aren't reduced to only fly F9 or drive. (I realize you didn't say fly F9, but I took that implicitly in your response.) There's also don't travel, or fly with a competitor.
If F9 treats their customers like crap, they don't stop flying. They just stop flying F9.
Edit: Minor changes.