Originally Posted by
cashash
I would suggest that if there were a market for seat prices to be 150% higher then someone would have filled that demand by now.
The competition over here works the other way around. As long as airlines are happy to offer $50 fares, people, of course, accept them. Pitching a ride for 125 is then pointless. In your original example, the increased 125 USD fare is something, that in my opinion, the travelling public could absorb almost within total journey cost as it is today. That cash is already being carried and thrown around.
Since this thread is RYR labelled, let's not forget this particular company and a few keen learners have 40% less cost per crew due to avoidance of proper social security contributions. If they need to increase to 150 USD, but the fully legal employers up to 225 to keep the numbers black, we do not need to wait and see to understand what will happen.