Originally Posted by
pinniped
That doesn't make any sense. The demand side alone can't force airlines to offer cheap tickets.
We didn't screw them.
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Originally Posted by
NFeldberg
When an airline like Southwest becomes the Ben Bernanke of the U.S airline industry, Id say we most certainly have a problem with cheap fare demand.
I have to agree with pinniped on this one. We, the leisure traveling public, did not force airlines to price below profitability. We did not have a gun to their head making them offer lower prices. The Airlines simply could have and currently [apparently] do price so that they can be profitable.
I don't see why it is a "problem" when consumers want to pay as little as possible for a product or service but it is "just good business sense" or "looking out for stakeholder's interest" when a business wants to pay as little as possible for a product or service [i.e. labor].