Originally Posted by
morno
And then you may as well halve the number of jobs!
It’s not 1980 anymore pal.
Indeed it isn’t.The quick fix is to reduce the number of passengers now. The unpalatable and expensive long term fix is to upgrade the infrastructure. Unlike the 80s, we now live in a user pays world.
Populations everywhere have almost doubled since 1980. Airfares as a percentage of average income are now some fraction of what they were then.
And one of the many reasons why airfares are so cheap? Airline Jobs per passenger have been more than halved since then.
Things are definitely not any better now for the passenger nor for the average airline industry employee.