Let Everyone Walk to Where They Need To Go !

[sitnresrv]

Wow are you my ex-wife. She had a bad habit of putting words in my mouth also. Please repost my exact comment where I said I enjoy pissing off passenger....you can't can you. Look, if the price of copper tubing goes up do you take it out of the plumbers pay? No, the plumbers service costs more. My best bud is a master plumber and he hasn't lost pay but it costs more to use his service. Why should the airlines be immune to this. You still are protecting the precious passenger who is paying 1995 prices still. You cannot defend that. Because I think the passengers must pay more, at least what today's value is, you assume, again like my ex-wife, that I hate passengers. Nope. If you believe we should continue to bleed money while allowing airfares to be painfully cheap still, what is your answer oh aviation expert?

 

[Wally]

From one weenie to several other weenies.

Now, let's hear all your weenie responses.

Let me start!!

Of course our bosses need to raise ticket prices so we in turn can stop subsidizing said prices. But as is already happening, demand will go down, at least in the short term. And because of that, furloughs will (continue to) happen. Just as people have cut back on their driving as gas prices have risen "overnight", the same will happen when we raise fares. Raise ticket prices overnight to the level we need to raise them to, and we will continue to lose customers. Now don't get me wrong, it needs to happen. But don't just think it's a simple as adding $50 to every ticket. There will be other ramifications. It's fun to pound our chest here on FI, but we should think about potential outcomes too.

But that's just my weenie response.

 

[Nindiri]

Wow are you my ex-wife.

Well, if you were an ass to her like you enjoy being to your passengers, then I can certainly understand why she's your ex-wife.

It's your life, though; rage on.

 

[cruxx@9]

OR......

Raising ticket prices would just make the rich richer and they would find another reason to pay us less.