Re:Less Than Half of US Workers Use All Their Vacation Days
by amrocha on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:07PM
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I don't know either. Probably some combination of subsidies/taxes/income/wages
Re:Less Than Half of US Workers Use All Their Vacation Days
by ducknalddon on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:09AM
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Lack of strong competition?
Re:Less Than Half of US Workers Use All Their Vacation Days
by amrocha on Sunday April 02, 2023 @07:14AM
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There's plenty of competition for domestic flights in NA imo, there has to be a reason they all charge as much as they do
Re:Less Than Half of US Workers Use All Their Vacation Days
by ghaff on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:54AM
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There is a lot more budget carrier competition, often flying in and out of secondary airports, in Europe. The US does have a few like Spirit but nothing like Europe. In Europe, there are probably more subsidies, generally it's denser, probably a higher percentage of leisure travelers, more competition from trains, fewer people likely drive, etc.
It just adds up to a lot of competition among no-frills airlines because there's a sizable group of price-sensitive travelers who are fine with talking a budget flight for an hour or two.
Re:Less Than Half of US Workers Use All Their Vacation Days
by ghaff on Saturday April 01, 2023 @10:41PM
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Subsidies on fuel among other things. For some of us, for a trip of any length, it’s also hundreds of dollars to
park or have airport transportation though that applies to domestic flights as well.
In any case I’m hundreds of dollars to fly in the US.
That's 'nuts', why's that? If £12 short haul flights between cities works in Europe why not in the US? Obviously the US is a lot bigger than the UK, but so's Europe, I could book a flight right now for today to (checks) Ibiza for £9.99, Milan or Barcelona for £12.99, and so on. Why's it 10x that (actually 29x for today, but ae little as 5x (mid two digits) if we push the date out and go mid week, call it 10x, whatever) for NY to Chicago? Naively I would think within one country it should be possible to run it if anything even cheaper.