• brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      10 hours ago

      Could be reporting requirements or KYC stuff. It might differentiate how much information to gather on the passenger or put restrictions on where they can sit, like exit rows.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        If it’s an airline, it’s likely to allow them to more accurately predict passenger weight. Planes have weight ratings, and need to be sure their loads are distributed appropriately, (like not having everyone in the very back of the plane). Differentiating the tickets will help them flag potential weight problems before boarding even begins.

    • cabillaud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      10 hours ago

      Large families still having the possibilty to flight from time to time even if they are not so rich?

        • teegus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          2 days ago

          I’m guessing it’s the “peak dates” thing. They have a base price aka. minimum price when planes are mostly empty and then put on a surcharge for when demand is high, instead of altering the base price.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          17·
          2 days ago

          Like the plaque on your teeth?

          Or did you mean plague, you (to borrow a page from your own playbook), fucking idiot?

          Neither of which is an actual turn of phrase, btw. The phrase you wanted is (ironically, because of the plaque) “it’s like pulling teeth with you.” If you’re going to be a smug dick at least be correct so you don’t embarrass yourself any more than you already do by simply being a smug dick.

        • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          14·
          2 days ago

          Fuck, Dean, lately all you seem to do on lemmy is gripe and insultingly correct people while getting it wrong yourself. Hope you feel better soon.

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    I recently did a return trip from Dublin to Boston and back. Each ticket was 1 Euro; rhe rest was airport taxes, government levies, etc.

    In the past, pre-covid, 1 Euro tickets were not unusual. Part of the reason why Ryanair became so dominant was that they contracted with secondary airports that had much lower fees, so the final price was below what the competitors could offer.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      311·
      2 days ago

      Wow, you’re a pleasant person. Just a big bowl of rainbows and sunshine.

      You didn’t have to write this comment but you did and you look stupid. All you had to do was nothing. Even a monkey can do that.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        It’s such a strange thing to get hostile about. Ironically, it low-key bugs me that we put the dollar sign before the number it’s indicating. “$64” is read as “sixty-four dollars,” not “dollars sixty-four.” So why write it like that? (Not rhetorical, I really want to know. I tried looking up this question to find out the answer, but haven’t found anything conclusive.) Putting the currency symbol behind the number makes more sense, like how some countries write the Euro. (Which also explains why some people might not intuitively place the dollar sign before the number - it’s their native convention and it follows clear logic.)

        So maybe the point was ignorance or fear of the foreign? Or a misguided attempt at English language purity? Or they’re a former Redditor who hasn’t quite shaken off the Reddit “pointless, hostile hot-take” mentality?