DownUnderwater Dan
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I know.
The price of airplane tickets is only vaguely related to fuel or other operational costs, it is usually more a political decision. No wonder on what's happened.
I am not in the position of evaluating if making difficult to fly, increasing the prices 3 times or more, is a good move or a bad one.
On the other side, the air companies are struggling and risking to go bankrupt. Increasing the tickets can give them some oxygen.
The alternative is that the government subsidises them directly, as our government did with Alitalia, giving them 5 billions euro of public money for keeping it alive. Personally, I had much preferred to triplicate the tickets, and not use MY public money for keeping alive a private company which was already with both feet in the grave before the COVID-19 crisis.
As you see, there is no simple, correct recipe capable of saving both the goat and the cabbage...
Ciao Angelo.
It's pretty simple, an airline has to have passengers to stay in business, no need to overthink otherwise
Since you brought up Italy, tell me, would you be happy paying a month's wages for a return domestic flight only 1-2 hours long journey? Tell me, would the Italian people be happy paying a month's wages for that same journey?
The majority of domestic flights in Australia were cheaper than domestic flights in Indonesia at that recently passed period. If prices had tripled here permanently, I guarantee you that people couldn't afford it, and 10's if not 100's of thousands of people would be out of work as a result
Certainly it reduced the number of passengers, slowing down the spreading of the virus.
Prices in Indonesia had already started returning or had already returned to previous lower prices before covid, after large backlash. So flights were full again more regularly at lead up to covid