[Hunble]

If you make an airline haul that person around at no extra cost, in a business where paid seat occupancy rates are EVERYTHING, how are you not penalizing the business?

FALSE

The operational costs to an airline are FUEL and salaries. Even if the aircraft if totally empy, they will end up paying about the same amount.

But you are correct:

"Seat occupancy rates are EVERYTHING."

And this airline just lost our business. Not just for a single flight, but all flights in the future.

[Poohbah]

The operational costs to an airline are FUEL and salaries. Even if the aircraft if totally empy, they will end up paying about the same amount.

And paying passengers offset those costs.

"And this airline just lost our business. Not just for a single flight, but all flights in the future."

Eventually, every airline is going to have this policy. Sorry, but the manatee community is going either pay double or diet.

[usconservative]

If you make an airline haul that person around at no extra cost, in a business where paid seat occupancy rates are EVERYTHING, how are you not penalizing the business?

Seat occupancy rates aren't everything BUT if the airline doesn't charge for the second seat, they lose that revenue - plain and simple.

If one person requires two seats to be transported from location A to location B, but is only charged for 1 seat, then the airline loses that revenue from the second seat.