I have heard many times the claim that they couldn’t break even based on ticket price alone.

It is also possible that this was true once, but not anymore, especially given how consolidated, anticompetitive, and therefore overpriced, that industry has become.

Parasites for sure but…

Delta has 60 billions revenue.

Unless the C suite earns a couple billion per person, that’s not what’s preventing it from flying planes profitably.

As another poor maladjusted soul who still often calla LibreOffice “OpenOffice”, you have my complete sympathy.

They do in Europe. And the flight is somehow still cheaper.

But in the US the doors fall off the plane, the ticket is overpriced, but they somehow still lose money which they have to recoup by selling airmiles to credit cards and your data to ICE.

There is a lot I really don’t get about the US flight industry. Only explanation that makes sense is lack of competition due excessive consolidation with antitrust asleep at the wheel.