alt Hacker NewsIt's made it so that relatively poor people can afford to regularly fly all over the world, which is a relatively new thing.
Lowe middle income people in lower middle income countries can afford to fly somewhat regularly, and even internationally, too.
Flying used to be just for the rich only as far back as the 60s, and for nobody as far back as 200 years...
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> It's made it so that relatively poor people can afford to regularly fly all over the world, which is a relatively new thing.
has _it_? do what is _it_ again?
>> All told, is all this chicanery benefiting airlines?
i'm really curious how screwing passengers has done these things.
I'd rather go back to only being able to fly once every few years as opposed to the bacchanal that is Ryanair...
The vast majority of the world’s population can’t afford to fly. The relatively poor part of your comment is weird. Flying is still for the rich.
Yes, it’s a way to extract something from all buckets. Higher income people you can get more money but with low incoming ones you get a lot more quantity since there are way more lower income people. Laws and regulations prevent people standing up or overloading planes with passengers so this is the alternative.