alt Hacker News> 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.
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tekla • last Tuesday at 11:58 PM
Business and 1st class subsidizes basically all of Economy class.
carlosjobim • last Tuesday at 11:42 PM
If you fit more people onto a flight, you can make more money, while the journey is less comfortable for the passengers.
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Airlines are actually very low margin business. Thus, all these pricing tactics merely offset the drastically cheaper tickets. It makes sense, their margins are so low that they have to nickel and dime everything to make a small profit in good years and avoid going under next recession.