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Jan 21, 2010 | 9:09 am

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Originally Posted by RCyyz

IMHO this is stupid.

First of all, there's no way the fare is $29. So why even bother advertising it as such?

Secondly, if the all-in fare is $80 then how much money is being made? Assume the plane is full. 200 pax @ $80 each = $16,000. I don't know for a fact, but I'm pretty sure it costs more than $16K to fly an airplane YYZ - YUL. So what's the point?

Same as selling YYZ-LGA for $1500 in Y and then selling YYZ-NRT for $860. You have been here long enough to know $29 for a seat is better than nothing.. also lots of people will buy that seat at $49 when they get to the web site.
How can you knock West Jet, they are the airline making $$$$$$$$$$

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