GCC...
I think maybe you missed my question...?
Business aviation dictates that when an aircraft is full, you achieve your optimum profit after operating costs. Assuming that airfare per customer is where revenue is achieved, I'm wondering where the range of increase would be to keep airlines going.
I'd still pay $50-100 more per ticket if that's what it took to experience a carrier that would put "service" back into the travel experience and also allow that carrier to meet it's operating costs.
I was curious if anyone had any guesses how much of an average increase is required for a domestic flight in order to bring carriers out of the nose dive.