Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups

Re:Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than g... by marcosdumay on Thursday May 29, 2025 @04:23PM (#44129965)

They are a low profit business, and that kind of liberty is stuff that pushes their profits even lower. They also always fail to differentiate from one another and are always competing on only price and how much fees they can keep hidden.

Personally, I do argue that it's worth it having tickets 10% more expensive and forcing the companies to always allocate all passengers, treat people humanely and etc. It's even worth it the 25% increase to make them let people carry luggage and avoid all the troubles that come with the optionality. But most governments seem to disagree.

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Re:Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than g... by umanwizard on Thursday May 29, 2025 @04:29PM (#44130052)

> It's even worth it the 25% increase to make them let people carry luggage

You are asking for people who fly without checked luggage (as I usually do) to subsidize you.

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Re:Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than g... by marcosdumay on Friday May 30, 2025 @05:16PM (#44139956)

Sure, you would subside people flying with luggage. It also reduces the time planes stay on the ground, stops the fighting between passengers for the always full luggage bins, clears the seats in case of emergency, and eliminates the largest hidden fee companies manage to put on their prices.

Anyway, the fact that you just assumed I personally fly with luggage is weird.

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Re:Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than g... by account42 on Monday June 02, 2025 @07:28AM (#44157700)

A piece of luggage is on the same other of magnitude as the variance in human weight so either way there is plenty of "subsidizing" going on.

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