Originally Posted by
Pilot DAR
Fair enough, as a pax, I would happily pay $0.25 for every ticket, if doing so greatly reduced the chance that I would have to be disembarked, and delayed, waiting for a replacement plane, once during my passenger career. Whoever pays to repair those two planes is going to pass that cost along to me anyway. I'd rather pay extra wing walkers, than sheet metal repair technicians! Costs can be cut too much.
you already paying for that, and is a fix cost per seat/flight, not based on miles travelled. Pushing a plane for a 1 hour flight or 12 hour flight cost the same