How Budget Airlines Cut Costs
July 8th, 2009 No Comments » | POSTED BY ROB
If you’re a fan of flying to far away destinations (or should that be flying to airports that are far away from your desired destination) for low prices, then you may want to take a look at this chart from Metro, which shows how budget airlines can offer you such cheap prices:
Of course, just because they’re cheap doesn’t mean they don’t have to meet the same safety standards as higher priced airlines, just that you won’t get any food, entertainment or indeed space for your legs.
What the chart also fails to show is the extra money that budget airlines are trying to make charging for check-in, extra luggage and even going to the toilet.
Via the ever enlightening Bitterwallet.
