Will Hawaiian and Alaska join in and how Southwest uses no fees to make it look like you pay less.
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Will Hawaiian and Alaska join in and how Southwest uses no fees to make it look like you pay less.
At the end of the day here is what the airlines get for tickets, baggage, and other fees (on board purchased items, etc.) per revenue mile per airline cheapest to most expensive from real data 2023 (what passengers paid per seat mile):
1. Frontier (0.1048)
2. Spirit (0.1167)
3. Allegiant (0.125)
4. Hawaiian (0.1253)
5. JetBlue (0.1332)
6 Alaska (0.1587)
7. United (0.1615)
8. American (0.1713)
9. Delta (0.1724)
10. Southwest (0.1729)
Real Data, not opinion. HA is 38% cheaper than the most expensive (SWA) per mile and weigh that against what you get (meals/no meals, assigned seats/cattle car, etc), so despite the “free” bags, and “free” peanuts SWA is the most expensive per seat mile in the US, based on real data.
@Jay S. Is that the cost of the seat or how much they are making? If an airline is efficient in how they run their business they can make money with having the high ticket cost. It might be lower pilot / FA costs, lower fuel costs, lower overhead, etc.