Originally Posted by
parabellum
Staff travel is not subsidised by fare paying passengers. Staff travel is normally subject to load so the staff travel IF there is an empty seat.
If staff paid for their flights, just like every other passenger, then airline revenues would increase and the cost of a commercial passenger ticket would be lower (Not a lot but these are facts)
So by giving away a ticket to staff for free the commercial passenger IS paying a higher cost.
This is simply proven by the fact that the company revenues are higher if they sold the ticket to the member of staff so the cost to a paying passenger is lower as the fixed costs get divided up by a larger number of passengers.
Two people on a two seater aircraft is a lower cost to the passenger if both pay. The same applies for larger aircraft as the price a passenger pays is related to the revenues the company makes and not just the numerical number of seats sold.