But you're NOT saving $490 enroute...you're paying that $490 anyway and getting nothing for it save an unpleasant travel experience.
Seeing as you are paying that $490 anyway why not demand your money's worth?
What is more the actual price charged for the trip becomes hidden from scutiny. When an LCC starts taking a cut from everyone else that you interact with, be it rental car, hotel, tour operator etc then you lose the ability to know what you're effectively being charged. You probably end up paying more than $490 for the trip...I would suggest
a lot more in the final analysis.
This is merely very clever marketting...but rest assured you are not getting 'cheap' travel.
What an aeroplane costs to run between A and B is very much the main point...the costs associated with that are, for the most part, beyond the control of the airlines and don't vary greatly between airlines.
Airline marketting and competition have made the 'buyer' of airline services
extremely price sensitive...raise fares and watch pax file to the next counter down the terminal.
Best way around this?
Don't let the passengers know what they are really paying.
