One Way (or Another)?-The Question Is in the Air

[Chuysmom]

The prices will change as the seats are sold...there are so many at (for example) $500, so many at $525 and so on...once those seats are gone at that specific price it will bump. They HAVE to get a specific amount from a flight to make it profitable. Once they fulfill that, the rest is icing. If they send a flight out without a full load in essence, they are losing money...nowadays when flights are not full they will change the routing or drop one flight from that route...they can't afford to allow empty flights anymore.

That's not good for people who are airline employees and fly standby...it gets harder and harder for them to fly standby with all the flights full. Airline employees are notoriously underpaid and so this perk means a lot to them and it's going away faster and faster these days.

At the beginning of a fiscal year they alot so much for jet fuel and supplies, etc. When the cost of fuel goes as high as in the recent past they are in the red for it...so to speak.

tough business.

Carrie Rojo

"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
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