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Originally Posted by SoCalAprch  You proved me wrong, Delta should raise prices and that will fix everything. You are right that there are tons of things that go into making an airline profitable. But getting people on your planes is the only source of income for an airline. Raising prices isn't the fix all for the industry and its only gonna hurt it with this economy. |
No one is saying that simply raising fares will fix all the problems. That's just one element of a fix. What will do absolutely
no good and actually make things worse is trying to extract more from labor. Raise prices, add fuel surcharges, improve the product, increase fleet utilization, etc... All of it contributes to a better operation. Pissed off employees that have taken 40% paycuts and endured furloughs combined with aircraft utilization rates of 40-60% of the day and rock-bottom fares will simply not help, no matter how many dimwitted MBAs you can find that will tell you it will.