Yes Gaunty! Thank God for competition!
The punters can now still travel to Europe for the price they used to pay in the 1960s. They can travel interstate for less than the taxi fare to the airport. They can fly across the Tasman for probably less than they used to 40 years ago.
Trouble is, the airlines are either going broke to do it, or they're screwing everybody's wages through the floor so that they can afford to do it.
Yes, thanks to rock-bottom wages, pay for your own endorsements, pilots undercutting each other and lack of effective union representation, the punters now have the cheapest fares ever!
About the only thing that's nowhere near where it was 40 years ago are the CEO's and director's salaries. But after all they deserve it so much more than the workers don't they??
THANK GOD FOR COMPETITION!!!