Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Increase Ticket Prices
It&#x27;s peculiar how stereotypical some of the Americans in the comments are. It seems like there&#x27;s a prevailing attitude of not wanting to &quot;subsidize&quot; others. Whether that includes people who want to bring luggage, people who would like a meal on the long flight or those that don&#x27;t travel very often - does not matter, what matters is that it&#x27;s the other people, who are not you.<p>I think that that same attitude is responsible for the current state of the higher education and healthcare in the US. As long as the interested parties can present the &quot;us versus them&quot; outlook to the public (&quot;them&quot; is of course poor&#x2F;lazy&#x2F;lower class people), they can get away with lots and lots.