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When Will Lower Gasoline Prices Work Through to Airline Tickets?



 
 
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Old December 4th, 2008, 05:57 AM posted to rec.travel.air
sharx35
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"Kev" wrote in message
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On Dec 3, 2:23 am, "Sharx35" wrote:
"Kev" wrote in message

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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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Old December 7th, 2008, 10:33 PM posted to rec.travel.air
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Never!, if you travel out of CVG!!!!


JB

 




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