How COVID-19 Broke the Airline Pricing Model 

Finally something to make me less anxious

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AxxL I’ve seen you everywhere and your disturbing

Remember Me When You Blow Up Edit : Know Way

Na bro, he will always be a brick guy to me

I don’t know

Magic

@@thekuygerian eye movements, duh smh😒

The infinity gauntlet of Wendover’s existence

@@thekuygerian It's a stock footage overlaid with footage that he filmed on another laptop.

Nice spot By the way, do someone know what is the name of that airport?

Agree, but doesn't the sail boat have the right of way?

Muhammad Daffa Nasdyansya Rasyad looks similar to Billy Bishop airport

Definitely Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Recognized it immediately when I saw it.

I thought that was a bird like a seagull 😂

They just need to Photoshop masks onto all of their footage.

Vigilant Cosmic Penguin you cannot photoshop a mask that is for images and stock footage are vidoes so you need something like adobe after effects or final cut pro

Hean Stone photoshop deez nuts

@@heanstone1327 wow thank you for your insightful comment, where would we be without it

Hean Stone who?

Wait Ryanair has the capability to show ads? But that costs money to be able to have a system to show ads. I thought that they only went for the most basic chair with out even a seat pocket because it's cheaper to not have any. The only reason they do have a tray table is to sell you water at triple value.

@@sirBrouwer Yes, they do have the most basic chairs, it feels like traveling on a bus. They show ads the analog way, digital ads are too expensive! The doors for the overhead compartments all have ads printed on them, they sell lottery tickets on board, once they even tried to charge for the toilet. Ryanair planes are like a newspapers, if there is space available, you can put an ad there. I am surprised they haven't printed ads outside of the plane yet.

@@Julia-rm2vw : they haven't printed ads outside of the plane yet. ryanair: quick... write that down.. write that down...

@@Julia-rm2vwthat would require to much time at the paint shop. Stickers would add extra weight and drag so more fuel cost to a single trip. they could ad add space to the uniform of the flight crew. Like a sports jersey. a add on the front and back.

@@JagdeepNagpal They actually have, some Ryanair Aircraft have advertisements/Stickers on them advertising Cities and other organisations

hmmmm ok but what did you do for a living 20 years ago Ed Powers?

Gold

I get it

And he covers the subject of bricks often, to throw the Feds off the real subjects.

@@aryboss1514 here, have a gold star sticker sir!

wow i just realized this and i've been watching both of "their "videos for like two years xD

That's reserved for Half as Interesting

They got new terminal now. That is why.

@@nntflow7058 - New terminal or not, you're still in Newark.

D 349 what about lagarbage?

@@VisibilityFoggy and it's still United.

😂😂

Lol yes. I too would like to trace for near to nothing.. as I have near to nothing in regards to the American currency

There is an absolute minimum cost for tickets. That would be factoring in the cost of operation for that flight. Divide the by the number of seats available and that makes it the absolute lowest cost per seat possible not sure what that would be but it would probably still be in the ballpark of around $150ish speculative.

Oil didn't break, oil futures broke.(derivative based hedging and speculation, tradable contracts to buy/sell 1000 barrels at a fixed price and date in the future.) Basically for a certain delivery date, I recall it was April 2020, there were outstanding contracts for oil purchases, the normal users no longer needed the oil and most buy-side contract holder didn't have any way to take physical delivery or store it so they started selling there contracts, but nobody needed that much oil even if it was cheap so the price kept dropping until it was low enough to get the suppliers on the sell side of contracts to buy back the contracts. The actual daily spot price of oil only dropped a little, but not below production cost.

did I detect a pun?

That's why most of these "all you can eat"-type places require reservations and simply don't take walk-ins (at least for the AYCE offer).

Yes lol.

Is it really that cheap?

Marquis no they’re actually free

@@Marquis-Sade no. I flew from Newark to Las Vegas and back nonstop for $35 tho

It's also the number of people on the flight.

,😆😆😆

I wouldn't mind a couple inches of space.

One can only hope

no they wont lol. 'were in this together' they say, but i promise, in 5 years its back to screwing the customers.

@@bigtony77 That's what happens when competition is cut down. They shouldn't have allowed the mergers than happen over the years.

Hopefully not. I travel without luggage and resent having to pay for those that travel with 2.

I want a video of Wendover talking about MS Flight Simulator

If sam actually played Flight sim to get background footage for his vids

3. Mustard?

I can hear him!

My state used to have the second most cases reguraly getting more than 4,000 cases per day and now we only got 300 new cases yesterday

@JACKSON KUSTER So you state is doing a good job? Or at least a better job?

@JACKSON KUSTER What State ya from? Here in Maine, we're doing surprisingly well, especially considering how few people I see actually wearing masks on a daily basis.

JACKSON KUSTER lol, it's really weird just guessing how confident you were in your answers that you were from NJ. That said, you're not wrong, we're doing fantastic here in NJ, and the country-wide COVID spike when summer hit was really weird to watch. Everyone in the northeast just wondering "wtf, I thought we were done with this shit, what are the rest of you guys doing".

@JACKSON KUSTER jokes on you I live in Mass, which has even less cases

You get what you pay for....

Ryanair is one of the best cheap airliners so stop being a winy child

@@inactive859 nah

Zannels ...Michael...is that you???

Chris Gee ?

oh shoot

blood magic

Mind control

gremlins

It is stock footage, originally having a green screen in place of an actual computer screen. Wendover then added suitable content there, as if the woman were googling something about planes.

Holy shit, it'd literally die to go there at that price.

@@MezzoForte4 lol

I live in Tunisia, 100 miles south of Italy. Flights to Rome cost more than that. I would have loved to visit the US.

@@MuzzaHukka I wouldn't visit the US right now. It's full of idiots who believe the virus doesn't exist.

Same as Siberia

AJ Zebadua its like all airport stock footage is Pearson, I see it so often lol

Oh my god, you're right!

And a lot of SVO as well!!!

@@epiccollision I think maybe Pearson is just impressive looking as far as airports go. Plus it's cheap to film shit in Canada.

Is your name similar to the company's name? xD

Rip

So difficult to include a time stamp?

@@FarfettilLejl on mobile it is

@@oliverm1255 it's not though. Just add @ followed by the time and RU-vid will do it automatically. Eg @1:00

@@ailinos No need for @

a.k.a get stick bugged

Hayo1706 YES I thought it was just me

I found it funny. And the clip starts at 12:43.

@@grahamturner2640 12:42 is more accurate

Spraying toxic bleach everywhere. I am due to fly soon. Im taking lots of elemental silver with me.

Searching through the comments for this!!

CW Lemoine: Teaches me about TOMCATS!

And 74 gear

@@romainsavioz5466 thanks. I've edited it now 😆😅

@@TheAviationChannel you should try Mustard channel too. High quality video content and great presentation.

@@airizsyah3439 🤣i'm already on that too.

Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

@@taleseduardolima Thank you! I was hoping someone had identified the airport which looks so weird I looked carefully to see if it was CGI.

@@vondahe Lol. Love that comment. I live just a few blocks from there. Too many buildings in the way for me to see it from my place, but I used to work at a building that had a great view of it.

@@taleseduardolima It's such a cool airport since you get a great view of downtown Toronto when landing or taking off. Then after you walk through a huge tunnel to get to Toronto, but then you're literally right in downtown. It's super neat. Closest example would be the old Meigs Field in Chicago. Hell, even when Meigs closed Billy Bishop was under pressure to close too. But the city decided against it and encouraged development. And today it's a neat little airport and very interesting.

There is a Wendover Airstrip somewhere in Utah

Pinchie Alarm That’s actually gonna be the name: Half as Expensive. Unlike most budget airlines there will be screens, but only playing Wendover and HAI videos.

... had second job ready since it about to paid a lot less..

Why don’t you guys move to a different country? Where wages in the aviation sector are higher.

Matthew K How can they afford to lay people off when commercial aviation competition is so low?

ME

@@thecrippledpancake9455 how can they afford not to? there are a fraction of normal flights now and estimates are that 2019 numbers wont be seen for 4 or 5 yrs...

Z Shieh lmaooooo

I clicked before I saw it. I just saw Wendover and clicked

Interesting factor in the future of AI

I thought it was funny when he said the computer got confused. Sounded like it was doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Thanks, now I don't even need the video.

Wasn't that only at the beginning of the pandemic?

I think the sponsorships negate the need for ad revenue.

I know, I was kidding anyway. 😅 Simon used to gripe about it.

Allegedly

@@Zyo117 😂

you however were technically last at the exact time of writing your comment; the specification of your temporal coordinates weren't precise smh.

@@michaelrichardson3834 You shall be my oracle for you are wise in the way of wisdom.

Xd same

Greedy comments fighting to be the most liked is a digital war zone

@@kyirid ok :) you get a 👎 from me

I disagree. The airline industry taking a massive hit is good news when it comes to the climate crisis.

@@normang3668 aaa gaay.

@Red Line XD i agree

@@normang3668 Ok Greta calm down

@@frankib8620 Not a fan of facts, huh?

@Porcupine yeah qantas has

im still surprised that second thought and wendover didn't fight yet

@Porcupine Its more complicated than a simple bailout anyway. Airlines as businesses have traditionally been regulated and restricted almost to communist levels.(This started in the 20s and 30s, the airline "deregulation" circa 1980 removed the government granted monopoly of routes and gov approval of seat prices and schedules.) Just adding a new route or changing the model of airplane on a route, requires a huge stack of paperwork and government approval of the paperwork. Scheduled routes and carriers are restricted different from charter carriers or commuters. Same 767, same route, same number of passengers, but one can just calculate a flight plan and go while the other must jump through a bunch of hoops that can take weeks. (and the passenger would never know which they are actually on as the charter could be contracted to handle overflow for the scheduled airline and even have matching paint.) And if an airline doesn't agree to have its fleet conscripted for war use they won't be granted a certificate to do business, which is both a financial risk from the airline side and from the government side they need to calculate that transport ability into defense strategy and cost. (They can't commandeer an airline that has gone out of business.)

@Porcupine American Airlines, southwest, united, and delta

That's because he oversimplified it and gave you the wrong interpretation. You see the high price here and low price there and think you got screwed. But the airlines are operating on thin margins and they broke even. Airlines can literally go bankrupt if they book a bunch of flights in advance and the price of gas changes too much. The reason prices have gone down is not because you are getting a fair rate, it's because the airlines are fucked because they already set up the flights and are now committed to them. Imagine if you booked a band and right after you turned down other potentially profitable bands, this band gets into a publicity shit show and now you won't be able to fill your seats and cover the cost of maintaining the stadium. Option A is that you take a full loss, option B is you cut ticket prices to try to cover as much loss as possible and hope you can make it up later with a more successful group. Option B lets you recover without having to gouge later or get lucky by getting a super high demand gig. I can make it even simpler for you, imagine you can't pay rent and are counting on the government to keep you from getting kicked out. You can either pay what you can or spend it elsewhere, but when the government says evictions can happen again you will have to pay the full amount you owe to prevent getting evicted. That's the airlines right now, they can either go tits up when the bills are due and they didn't make a dent in it or try to make it possible to survive the storm by giving you a discount now and covering some of their committed costs.

You got it. goo.gl/maps/ZgLeU5qu1YPWJGXj8

It is. I've flown there.

Yes, *SHOOT THE CASES*

I genuinely cannot tell whether this is the real kim jong un or not

Gunshots to the back of the head have a much higher fatality rate than covid19 and much more efficient too

Marcus Nesbitt he’s real

Wait is this the real Kim?

You mean the guy who does videos about planes... might be into subjects related to aviation?

Also bricks!!!

Nah, this channel is about the aviation industry. People stumbled upon this channel from a less relevant video.

It took me a while to realise, hehe. I looked at the US flag as I believe this is the gate in the Boston Logan Airport that United 175 left from on the 11th of September.

I’m outside of 6 feet

Well, it's got a nose, doesn't it?

They don't make mask small enough for us humans.

When we can travel to India again for some Biryani am I right?

It's not going back. They say new normal for a reason.

There is no going back. This is the start of the new normal.

varun kamble 🔥

Cookie's House Cannabis Co Amen! I hate those greedy airline bastards so much! My hate for the airline industry, terminal workers, and steward/ stewardess’ is so high, I don’t think it can be measured. If they would just treat humans with basic human dignity and compassion I wouldn’t have an issue with them.

@@Steampunkkids I have zero anger towards anyone working a job just trying to put food on the table or with the stress they deal with that causes that irritation with their customer base. i do have anger towards the industries making a handful of individuals wealthy beyond their wildest dreams

“Passengers being beaten and dragged from aircraft so airlines could manage a larger profit margin per flight?” No, I don’t remember that because it’s something you pulled out of your ass. Where do you get your news? People have been pulled off airplanes, but not for the reason you state.

Cookie's House Cannabis Co I get where you are coming from. But, after dealing with rude and hostile airline workers for years, the last straw was when a piece of the plane broke off and hit my infant son on the head. I will never forgive any of them for the way we were treated.

Lamo? Some cross between a llama, limousine, and lmao?