D&D and the rising pandemic

[Zardnaar]

A huge percent of airplane travel costs is fuel. Fuel is now zero in price.

Another huge cost is airplanes. They have so many some airlines are going to go bankrupt and there are going to be dirt cheap airplanes for sale.

So flight costs are now labour, which there is also a surplus of, plus airport fees, taxes and overhead.

There are so many crazy crazy forces pushing prices around it isn't funny. Inflationary, deflationary, etc. You can make a case for nearly any price direction; and you could be right, even if your argument isn't actually why it happened.

You can make some good guesses.

 

[NotAYakk]

You can make some good guesses.

I have two.

Prices go up.
Prices go down.

 

[Umbran]

Cynic is easier.

Yeah, but cynicism generally creates self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

[Umbran]

A huge percent of airplane travel costs is fuel. Fuel is now zero in price.

That... does not seem to be true. Maybe low oil prices have not yet filtered into the aviation fuel business, or low availability of workers under current conditions has increased prices?

In 2015, it appears to be that a gallon of A1 jet fuel apparently cost about $1.70. Today, it costs about $4.50 per gallon.

 

[Olrox17]

That... does not seem to be true. Maybe low oil prices have not yet filtered into the aviation fuel business, or low availability of workers under current conditions has increased prices?

In 2015, it appears to be that a gallon of A1 jet fuel apparently cost about $1.70. Today, it costs about $4.50 per gallon.

I don't know where you got those figures. I found this table:

Price seems to be at 15-years low.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Certainly prices will rise...if they can. With the global economy the way it is, too big of a price hike could result in the continuing lack of passengers.

in a case like this, the only party that can really manipulate a supply/demand curve would be the airlines. If they can’t lower their prices enough to fly at the new capacity rules, demand for seats simply won’t rise. The airlines will have to find new streams of revenue (like cargo) and/or reduce costs (shave plane mass).

Looks like the business plan is to keep all the seats, and make pasengers pay for the luxury of social distancing:

Frontier Airlines will let passengers keep their distance—for a fee

Securing a seat with no neighbor will come with an extra cost.

fortune.com

 

[Olrox17]

Looks like the business plan is to keep all the seats, and make pasengers pay for the luxury of social distancing:

Frontier Airlines will let passengers keep their distance—for a fee

Securing a seat with no neighbor will come with an extra cost.

fortune.com

If social distancing becomes a luxury that people have to pay for, the virus will spread like wildfire. Social distancing must be mandatory, not premium.

 

[MoonSong]

Back in March I posted this:

While everybody is locking down and canceling gatherings of people over as little as 5, this happens in the land of the nopal:

Mexico Holds Big Music Festival Despite Coronavirus Concerns

The coronavirus pandemic may have led authorities around the globe to cancel concerts and sporting events, and even shut down daily activities in some places

www.nbcnewyork.com

GUNS N' ROSES Performs At Mexico City's VIVE LATINO Festival Despite Coronavirus Concerns

GUNS N' ROSES performed at Mexico City's massive annual music festival Vive Latino Saturday night (March 14) despite thousands of people calling for the event to be canceled in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. At least a dozen of other artists had pulled out of the festival by Saturday...

www.blabbermouth.net

I can't believe how irresponsible this was, local twitter is using #muerelatino to denounce this.

As I write this, the same complex used to hold this festival -consisting of a relgamentary F1 track and two stadiums- is now being converted into a hospital for Covid patients. Oh and some of the security guards that worked in that event have since developed symptoms and died. No word on some of the people who attended it, but no doubt contagions happened during that festival.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Looks like the business plan is to keep all the seats, and make pasengers pay for the luxury of social distancing:

Frontier Airlines will let passengers keep their distance—for a fee

Securing a seat with no neighbor will come with an extra cost.

fortune.com

That probably won’t last, for the reason @Olrox17 stated.

 

[Umbran]

I don't know where you got those figures.

Well, I now cannot find the page I was looking at when I wrote, so, consider the assertion withdrawn.