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re: Can someone tell me how airlines set their prices?
Posted on 1/15/16 at 7:33 am to Pectus
Posted on 1/15/16 at 7:33 am to Pectus
Heard on radio news earlier this week: "Oil falls below $30/barrel briefly, airlines announce 5% price increase..."
Supply/demand in action. Watch the TV show Amazing Race sometime and you'll see supply/demand of money in action. Here in the USA where the Fed keeps the printing presses running 24/7/365 the supply of money is extremely high.
Amazing Race gives 2 people like $100 to get from Sudan to London using American Airlines (including travel from middle nowhere Sudan to airport). Try flying 2 people to London for under $100 from anywhere USA.
Hear a lot out of Texas and west of people taking a bus to Mexico City and flying out from there as it is saves tremendously on air prices (like 1/4to 1/2 the cost).
Simply supply of cash in an economy in action.
Supply/demand in action. Watch the TV show Amazing Race sometime and you'll see supply/demand of money in action. Here in the USA where the Fed keeps the printing presses running 24/7/365 the supply of money is extremely high.
Amazing Race gives 2 people like $100 to get from Sudan to London using American Airlines (including travel from middle nowhere Sudan to airport). Try flying 2 people to London for under $100 from anywhere USA.
Hear a lot out of Texas and west of people taking a bus to Mexico City and flying out from there as it is saves tremendously on air prices (like 1/4to 1/2 the cost).
Simply supply of cash in an economy in action.
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Posted on 1/15/16 at 7:42 am to Sneaky__Sally
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cause airlines are trying to make money.
Isn't that kind of...shitty?
This means that the airlines really didn't need money to fly your bags back when oil prices were high and flight costs were in the gutter...
So they found other ways to make money because people HAD to fly.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 7:44 am to WG_Dawg
I hate air travel. Find parking at airport just to get raped on daily fees, be there two hours before flight just to get to the gate with 20 mins to spare, pay baggage fee, stand in line for anal probing by TSA, wait forever to get your seat because everyone and their mother are shoving bags in the overhead bins, find out your seat just lost an inch of leg room since the latest refurbishment of plane, take forever to debark plane because we are too busy clearing out the overhead bins, wait forever at baggage claim, walk outside of terminal and walk through a haze of smoke felling like you have just smoked 2 packs, find your piece of shite luxury rental car that is really a Dodge Dart.....
/rant
Give me the good ol Interstate instead. My rule is if it takes more than 10 hours to drive, I fly.
/rant
Give me the good ol Interstate instead. My rule is if it takes more than 10 hours to drive, I fly.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 8:36 am to Teddy Ruxpin
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OP, if you're going to do the hidden city ticketing don't check a bag.
This may have been obvious but people sometimes miss the details.
After figuring out what this is, that's pretty funny to think about someone checking a bag.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 8:39 am to EastNastySwag
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Find parking at airport just to get raped on daily fees
LCH ftw. Anyone know of any other airports with free parking?
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find your piece of shite luxury rental car that is really a Dodge Dart.....
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