Airfare $19.86 surely way below fuel cost. Who even came up with this system?
so a more accurate way of phrasing this would be, “taxes and fees are 400% more than the flight”
Well, half of it is a “carrier interface charge” - basically, you’re paying to buy online. Fees are taxed differently, but they have to be optional. If you buy at an airport, they don’t charge it.
That’s Frontier for ya. The Ryanair of the US
Airline profit margins are surprisingly slim
Why not simply make the flight FREE*
(* Taxes and fees apply)
Let’s not give them any ideas.
What is “Carrier-imposed fees”? Isn’t the carrier the airline?
It would make more sense in the opposite order. And yes.
More like mostly fees. Taxes are like $11, while the fees are most of it.
The fees are the cost of the flight. This would be like a restaurant listing the power, staffing, storage space, accounting, inspection, and all the other costs to make food separately on your receipt.
You couldn’t pay me enough to fly just now.
(Alright I lie. I’ll do it, but you have to pay up front and add in life insurance.)
That reminds me that I’ll probably be flying back to the Bay Area on my employer’s dime in a couple months … and I do have a decent life insurance policy through them … at least my wife will be able to live out the rest of her life in comfort
Comfort is a relative term, when her soulmate isn’t around…
Nah he’s still alive
Maybe your employer is better than mine, but I’ve never had a policy provided that was more than a year or two of salary. Not exactly ‘living comfortably’ when she’s have to figure out how to go from a stay at home mom to making what I make a decade into my career…
Oh, I’ve also got a massive investment portfolio
In your pants
That, too.
But hey, at least the FCC is investing DEI everywhere.
I’ve read somewhere that first and business class make up the bulk of the income. No source.
I’m not sure how that maths out. Last time I booked a ticket (sadly a few days ago), it was a round trip with one connection each way, so 4 flights. It was an extra $600 for first class, so $150 per flight. The planes were around the 20 seats in first class size and that’d be $3k… it’s hard to say that the $3k was the bulk of the income there.
I heard the same thing - also have no source
Most businesses to chase the whale customers.
