Can you believe this nonsence? What’s next are they going to start charging for meals, tires, pilots? They have a service and a service charge for those services. Don’t be so gutless raise the “FARE” to cover everything.
Why don’t they do that because their afraid they will loose customers to the discount airlines.
What’s going to happen next are is it going to cost an extra 5 cents to buy a loaf of bread at the corner store for fuel, I mean they deliver bread to the store by vehicles that use fuel.
Can you belive the arrogance of these companies that are charging extra fuel prices.
They picked the business and the costs have gone up just raise the prices and be done with it and if you can’t afford the expenses get out of the business.
How outrageous! We all know the airlines should be providing their services for free! Next thing you know, the airports are going to charge you for using them! Wait a minute…
Welcome to the free market, Dandmb50. If you don’t like it, start your own airline.
And your question is…??
Dandmb50 Am I right that really what you are complaining about is the airlines saying they are raising prices because of the cost of gas? You think that they should just raise their prices and not give an excuse, right?
Truck lines charge a sur-charge when the gas goes up and if you ask a taxi driver why his rates are higher, he’d probably say it is because of the cost of gas. When people stop giving reasons and just raise prices, it is my experience that it means inflation is getting the upper hand.
Delta just signed a contract with their pilots which pays them something in the range of $360 per hour. Don’t be surprised if Delta doesn’t either say “We are having to raise prices because of labor costs” or “We have had to go into Chapter 11, because of labor costs”.
Okay, a typical jumbo jet carries what, 80,000 gallons of fuel per flight, and makes an average of three to four flights a day?
So if the cost of fuel goes up $0.25 a gallon, the airline is supposed to just swallow that additional $60,000 to $80,000 cost per day without complaining?
During the average 300+ days of service for a plane per year, that’s… (tap tappy tap)… at least eighteen million a year per plane. That pretty significant when you consider that some airlines get by on a yearly profit margin of less than $100 mill. Which is razor-thin when compared to even industries like AOL or McDonalds.
It’s not clear whether this thread is intended to be a question or a rant. Make up your mind, Dandmb50, and then rephrase your post and post it in the appropriate area.