Originally Posted by
VegasGambler
That's almost certainly not true. It would be true if airlines (or any business for that matter) charged you the amount that it costs them to do business, plus some fixed percentage of profit. But that's not how it works. There is a reason that "unbundling" is so popular -- it raises revenue.
There are various reasons why 'unbundling' is so popular, not just one. When the majority of air travellers today go online and book a flight based almost solely on price, the airlines have little alternative but to find the way to show the lowest price possible. That means unbundling so that the price shown is pretty much only the price for the seat and a rubber chicken 'meal' if you can call it a meal.
At the end of the day an airline is a business like any other. They need to make a profit to survive or even have a reason to bother being in business. "Raising revenue' as you call it is not a bad thing, it is a necessity. Or do you think a business should not make a profit? Whether people want to blame businesses for things they don't like or not does not change the fact that it is ALWAYS the consumer who drives things. The people always get what the people deserve. If we don't look at anything beyond price, then it should be no surprise if a business finds a way to show us the lowest price and then add on for things after that, so that they can make a profit.