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Varig was an airline in Brazil that was amazingly nice. Even economy seats got real blankets and actual silverware for dinner.

You'd love it, if it were not for the fact that they went bankrupt in the 90s when the first low-cost carrier entered the Brazilian market.



There are plenty of carriers (some might even say all of them) today without standing places where you don’t have to pay for using the toilets and many of them are profitable. You don’t need to accept ridiculous things for that. It’s just that every time, one of them will try to squeeze just a few more cents out of you and if the public allows them to do that, all the others will jump at the opportunity.


> many of them are profitable

Until they aren't, and either they need to find way to cut costs or extract more value per-passenger.

> You don’t need to accept ridiculous things for that.

Then don't? What's stopping you from not flying with low-cost carriers?

I already avoid easyjet/ryanair, even if the tickets from some company like KLM/Aegean costs more than double.




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