984
We had it all (europe.pub)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
219 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean there's a huge reason for the loss of luxury on planes that everyone conveniently forgets

Planes were EXPENSIVE, they were a luxury, and around the latter part of the 80s they figured out how to reduce the price. Tickets went from $500 to $50 for the exact same 1 hour flights to the exact same locations.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 10 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    There's a reason Ryanair became an instant success. People want to pay nothing for services rendered.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago*

    It's not just that, they figured out a factory line that made the production cost of planes drastically drop too

    They're still not cheap to produce, but they went from exorbitantly expensive, might only have 10-25 flights per day to an airport has 1000s of flights per day

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent