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When Will Lower Gasoline Prices Work Through to Airline Tickets?
"Kev" wrote in message ... On Dec 3, 2:23 am, "Sharx35" wrote: "Kev" wrote in message ... On Nov 25, 4:24 pm, "W" wrote: When will much-lower gasoline prices start showing up in reduced airfares? I'm still getting quotes for round trips from west coast US to Cancun of $900+. Airline tickets are sold pretty much on the basis of "what the market will bear". Unfortunately for the airlines right now, those markets won't "bear" what the marginal costs are. It has put the airlines in a position of needing to treat most airline seats as "loss leaders", which is to say they hope to sell you something else to make up for the loss on the seat. They have slashed capacity so as to try to only serve the folks willing to pay the most. Any reduction in their costs due to fuel savings will merely translate into smaller losses on the base ticket price. The business model that had them charging huge prices for "business travel" has died, probably never to be born again. "Supersaver" fares were never directly profitable and now have little interest in that market segment at all. None the less, even with the higher prices, travel is vastly more affordable than it was in the late '60s and early '70s. That is part of the problem. Air travel should NOT be so cheap that the average person can afford to fly at the proverbial drop of a hat. Flying should be for special occasions and not, as a matter of course, unless one lives in a location not served by other means of travel Well, I'm not sure why you would declare such a premise. But "below cost" or "cattle class" has basically always existed, whether it was trains, planes, or ships. Once you have a vessel going from A to B, it is a matter of filling it to capacity, ultimately at any price. The trick has always been to reach capacity before the total price fell below the profitable levels. The airlines passed that line in about 2001. There are know so many hassles associated with air travel that I, personally, will avoid ANY air travel unless absolutely, totally necessary. Who needs having to get to the **(*(*(*(*( #@#@$ airport hours before the flight leaves? Who needs trying to decipher fares and add-ons than change minute by minute? Who needs ANY of the bull****? I will drive, whenever possible, to many destination. Screw ALL forms of public transit. |
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When Will Lower Gasoline Prices Work Through to AirlineTickets?
Never!, if you travel out of CVG!!!!
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