On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 12:59:43PM -0700, Tom C wrote: > I've long thought that if airlines simply sold seats based upon what > it REALLY cost them to fly, instead of giving $100 flights > cross-country and charging somestimes an additional $300/$400 to fly > the last 150 mile leg of a trip, they'd be better off.
Actually, to a large extent, they are. That $300/$400 is close to the true cost of providing service to the feeder airport - often on a "regional jet" or some other configuration with few high-priced (business/first-class) seats. All the overhead has to be covered by a small number of daily flights. The $100 cross-country seat is an attempt to fill excess capacity on a route which already has far more daily customers paying the regular price (not to mention the airline target demographic - the business and first class customers), flying between airports which amortise the overhead over a larger route network. The regular price for that seat could well be $400, but it's cheaper to sell 10% of the seats at $100 than it is to fly with empty seats. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
