Airfare $19.86 surely way below fuel cost. Who even came up with this system?

  • @[email protected]
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    124 hours ago

    so a more accurate way of phrasing this would be, “taxes and fees are 400% more than the flight”

  • @spongebue
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    2 hours ago

    Well, half of it is a “carrier interface charge” - basically, you’re paying to buy online. Fees are taxed differently, but they have to be optional. If you buy at an airport, they don’t charge it.

    That’s Frontier for ya. The Ryanair of the US

    • @RoidingOldManOP
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      It would make more sense in the opposite order. And yes.

    • snooggums
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      174 hours ago

      The fees are the cost of the flight. This would be like a restaurant listing the power, staffing, storage space, accounting, inspection, and all the other costs to make food separately on your receipt.

  • FuglyDuck
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    148 hours ago

    You couldn’t pay me enough to fly just now.

    (Alright I lie. I’ll do it, but you have to pay up front and add in life insurance.)

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      88 hours ago

      That reminds me that I’ll probably be flying back to the Bay Area on my employer’s dime in a couple months … and I do have a decent life insurance policy through them … at least my wife will be able to live out the rest of her life in comfort

      • @[email protected]
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        14 hours ago

        Maybe your employer is better than mine, but I’ve never had a policy provided that was more than a year or two of salary. Not exactly ‘living comfortably’ when she’s have to figure out how to go from a stay at home mom to making what I make a decade into my career…

  • @Sanctus
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    1210 hours ago

    But hey, at least the FCC is investing DEI everywhere.

  • fraksken
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    69 hours ago

    I’ve read somewhere that first and business class make up the bulk of the income. No source.