Originally Posted by evh347

Not trying to sound surprised by any of this discussion, but...

Why is it that the airlines are the only businesses who when/if their costs go up...they refuse to pass those costs onto the customers? Instead, they pass the costs onto the employees. You've got rampies/gate agents making $8/hour...pilots less than $20,000 (in some cases the FA makes more than the FO)....meanwhile the fat cats give themselves million dollar bonuses.

Any other business passes their increased costs onto customers, except the airlines. What is so damn hard to understand about passengers having to pay at least 2-3 times more for a plane ticket than they would for a bus ticket?

Do the airlines honestly think that if everybody raised their ticket prices (so they could pay their employees an honest wage) that everyone would just stop flying? I highly doubt it.

Flying is and always was meant to be a luxury and it should be responsibly priced as such.

There was a thread not long ago about tipping pilots...I think that would be great. You tip you taxi driver, you tip your bartender, your waitress, your hair stylist....why not tip the pilots?