Originally Posted by
GUWonder
They may still be financially viable enough, and I’d more than welcome to see what happens in the aftermath of instituting a more consumer-friendly mandate on higher minimum seating comfort standards and other inclusions for all US flight passengers.
When major airline industry cartel kingpins say or act as if passenger demand is highly inelastic, then let’s just see how inelastic it is in the aftermath of mandating things like minimum seat width, seat bottom size, leg space and so on.
With of course increased cost. The success of LCCs like Spirit and Ryanair and Easyjet should provide ample evidence that what most (or enough) passengers want is the cheapest possible price. For an example from the other direction - look what happened to AA's "More room in Coach".
Also, you are demanding the airlines be required to assume the risk in this....YOU may welcome the results of seeing what happens if such things were mandated.... but what if you are wrong, demand IS indeed inelastic, and the airlines lose a whole bunch of money on your idea?