Airlines are crooks
So I'm just booking my flights to Dubai... and I see that Emirates has raised their price from QAR860 to QAR1400!!! Qatar Airways was already expensive- but this is taking it too far!
FlyDubai remains to be the cheapest at QAR822- which is still expensive!!
Why do they cost so much? Why are they ripping everyone off?
We are a captive audience!
soniya, i don't want "wise fool" to get more heart broken of buying Expensive tickets....
Well i always travel on ID90s and ID50s.... ;)
hey flyingAce, you would be the best person to throw some lights on it...don't u???
No comments at all....
I once bought a ticket from Doha to Dubai for 1800 QR so you are still getting it cheap.
All that said, a friend recently flew QR from Singapore to Heathrow for half the price of QR from Singapore to Doha!!!
and also remember that Qatar airways and emirates have to buy new planes too so another reason to keep on raising the rates.
You can try captain cr-ook
steve may have given some valid points but here the question is on the abrupt hike of the fares. tickets should be priced based on all factors like the depreciation rates, traffic in the route, life of the craft and average maintainence expenses. but a sudden hike in ticket fair during the festive seasons to almost twice the rate can certainly not be explained by what steve said. its purely based on a demand and supply relation. as there is no governing body restricting the upper limit of the fare, they are taking advantage of the demand surges.
Is there any way of going by sea launch ?
well said @steve 1....Hawk10...ofcourse it is taking advantage of the season and the passengers...in short its called...'airline business'...not charity!!!
Above explanation is accepted but they are taking advantage of the season. Sometime Flydubai comes down to QR 400 and some time goes up to QR 1200. If it is Eid, Christmas or summer vacation time, they know that the passengers don't have any alternative, but they have to fly and pay whatever they will demand.
I agree with Steve1 plus the airline industry in one which pays sky rocketting taxes to governments. Just go through your ticket fare it will say the taxes are more than the air fare.
The governments need to put taxes down in order to have a reasonable ticket price.
Now the flying by air not any more a luxury travel rather it has be come a need for all.
You ask why it is so expensive, before I say why it is expensive, would you prefer to be like Africa where Airlines cut corners and crash regularly? when you are at 40,000ft the outside temp is approx -40C, no oxygen and only a few lbs pressure, not the environment to be skimping on cost! its not a taxi, there are no laybys up there.
You are paying to stay safe, the spares cost a fortune up to $8,000,000 for an engine (which can require major overhaul if hit by a bird (approx $2,000,000)
The Pilots, Flight crew and Engineers all have to be trained and retrained every two years.
The industry is extremely well regulated with audits and checks by each nation on the other aircraft when they visit abroad.
All this has to be paid for.
We all know what happens when the driving force is money and not safety.
The extra are for the airhostess on demand
Because they know that seats are in demand and they can charge what they want..