Elizabeth Spiers: The airlines know they are scamming us

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Elizabeth Spiers: The airlines know they are scamming us
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Elizabeth Spiers: 'How low can consumer expectations go, and what does this mean if air travel becomes cost-prohibitive again?'

because they couldn’t rehire people they let go during the Covid pandemic fast enough to keep up with demand.

Some airlines are worse than others, but these are industrywide afflictions and are dictated by airline executives who know families like mine have little choice but to pay through the nose and suck it up. Real pain is borne by fliers and staff members, especially desk workers and airline attendants, who are expected to be wait staff, safety monitors, therapists and often law enforcement.

Now we’re, conservatively, at a $1,600 cost to drive, which is a couple hundred more than the $1,400 we’d pay for plane tickets normally.

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