In case you've wondered how certain airlines can profitably keep prices their prices so low, this visual makes it very clear.
And true, many of the cost reductions come from doing more of what we all hate about airlines: cramming more seats and offering less perks. But piling into an overcrowded tin cylinder without so much as a bag of peanuts to distract me from the crying baby two rows back wouldn't be half so bad if it didn't come with a $500 price tag.
I am all about no frills flights, just as long as they're actually cheap.
Oh, and to American Airlines who insists on recycling its blankets until they are so sticky and strewn with hair that I am afraid of touching them: enough with that already. Just get rid of them. Half-assed perks are far worse than no perks at all.
Via flowingdata, which I am clearly obsessed with.
