Originally Posted by darkroomsource

I wonder if the airlines have ever thought of raising the prices....
Competing to have the lowest prices isn't necessarily the best business practice.
Prices are about the same now as they were 30 years ago. And with inflation, that means they're dirt cheap now.
I wonder if an airlined guaranteed on-time arrival within 1 hour, if they couldn't raise their prices to 15% or even 25% more than anyone else.

Imagine the ad.
We have an extra plane standing by just in case we have troubles...
so, we guarantee you 10 times your money back if we don't get you to your destination on within one hour of the scheduled arrival.

Not only that, we'll throw in an actual meal.