Originally Posted by Capot
Are you really so dim that you can't understand what the source is of ALL the money the airline uses to carry out its operations? Hundreds of thousands of sources really; they're called "passengers" or even "customers". You are NOT doing them a favour by making them, "if I am feeling generous, comfortable".
I beg to differ here. NOT ALL the money the airline uses to carry out its operations comes from pax. On LCC's that may perhaps be the case, but on charters and mixed-mode flights, that is certainly NOT the case. Customers yes, pax, no.
In many mixed-mode cases, the money earned through the pax on the a/c is LESS than the money earned by the tons of cargo under their very feet. In the case of charters, if I want to be pedantic, YOU, the SLF, don't pay the airline... the TOUR OPERATOR does and hence the TOUR OPERATOR is the customer, not you. And the tour operators and freight customers don't ask those kind of dim questions that are being giggled over here.
So stop being so up your own behind, please. You are embarrassing to those SLF who take this thread for what it is... a bit of a giggle. Remember the old adage: "If you can't laugh at yourself, how can you laugh at all?"
S.