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Old Mar 27, 2013 | 12:52 pm
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Originally Posted by LongviewTX
It's not very hard - that would be mostly 'frugal' executives who cannot justify spending $40k on a charter private jet.

Airlines are (usually) not staffed with a crowd of unreasonable folks only capapable of setting the unbelievable prices on its product - I have a fair amount of confidence that $20k is a well-researched number where market demand allows the airlines to maximize their revenue (i.e. [price per ticket]*[# tickets sold]).
And quite frankly, F on emirates is going to be better than any 40k bizjet charter for this route (if that's even possible).
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