Originally Posted by MikeB525
Thanks guys. Ok, so then I'm not that far off in estimating that the actual increase in ticket prices would be pretty minimal. In fact, I've even argued on this forum that the required increase in ticket prices would probably be barely noticable by frequent fliers, and probably unnoticable by infrequent fliers. As I've argued earlier, just a relatively benign increase per ticket would generate alot of additional income when multiplied over all the passengers carried.
Looking back on my origional question, can anyone give an opinion as to how much I "should" have been charged for that EWR-PHX round trip?
Can't answer for PHX, but I lived in Wichita for a few years in the mid-90's and remember paying $350-375 for tickets a few times while there. I just looked up the same fare ICT-LGA and total is $303. Ridiculous given today's fuel costs. So my answer would be late 1990's prices adjusted for inflation and an added fuel surcharge.