Very enjoyable video. You differentiate your videos from other aviation videos with really interesting factoids throughout. Love those nuggets of info. Keep on doing what you're doing and thanks!
I always thought Southwest Airlines's heart-shaped livery is really cute lol! I hope they start expanding to transatlantic and transpacific services to disrupt the triopoly being held by greedy United, American, and Delta Airlines.
What?! I have flown from Sky Harbor to central California nearly a dozen times in the past five years alone and it has always taken at least 2 hours. How come it only took you a little under an hour?
I’ve never found Southwest to be a LCC. Sometimes with advance purchase a good deal can be had. When I lived in a United hub city I would regularly compare SW with legacy carriers. Often the prices were close. SW fanboys can tout the free baggage but being a legacy carrier credit card holder I received baggage benefits. Nothing against SW but in my experience I never saved enough money to make flying them worthwhile.
I’ll tell you something funny. Southwest Airlines doesn’t exist. Yes, there are airplanes painted with the “Southwest” logo. But no airline in the world could exist as a private company. And the reason is simple. Boeing and other plane factories are unionized, which dramatically raises the price of the planes. A new passenger plane that seats (for example) two hundred people is made from a few million dollars worth of raw materials. But the finished plane sells for two hundred million dollars. That’s an incredible mark-up. But that’s only the first expense. In order for the plane to be sold, a bank must offer a loan for two hundred million dollars. That loan is usually made at eight percent. Sometimes higher. So the cost of the plane, plus the cost of the loan is around four hundred million dollars. Then there’s taxes, maintenance, salaries, airport fees, training, fuel, insurance, upgrades, and repairs. That puts the total cost of a new passenger plane at six hundred million dollars. So $99 dollar discount tickets aren’t going to cover that huge financial investment. The actual cost of a single seat on a domestic flight is close to a thousand dollars. So how do Southwest and all the other airlines offer such cheap flights? Easy: By using payroll taxes to subsidize the airlines. On a domestic flight, the passenger only pays twenty percent of the actual ticket price. Payroll taxes cover the other eighty percent. That’s how Washington works: Deception, fraud, and theft everyday. So let’s end the game: Airlines like Virgin, Southwest, and United will no longer be subsidized. Ticket prices will reflect the actual cost of doing business. So from now on, a normal flight from New York to L.A. is $2500.
@@Adumzzinthehouse I don’t think that long distance travel is good for anyone. So I have no plans to fly. The whole world is suffering from tourist-induced alienation. It’s better for people to find happiness where they live by removing all the propaganda, extortion, monopolies, inflation, and taxes. Happiness at home should be normal.
Very enjoyable video. You differentiate your videos from other aviation videos with really interesting factoids throughout. Love those nuggets of info. Keep on doing what you're doing and thanks!
You are my favorite UA-camr keep it up and thank you.(I am going to start doing this because of you)
Excellent video clip of SW 737 take off out of Sky Harbour Airport
Classic take off video out of Phoenix on SW 737, great views
Another amazing vid... thank you!
Gorgeous sunrise
I always thought Southwest Airlines's heart-shaped livery is really cute lol! I hope they start expanding to transatlantic and transpacific services to disrupt the triopoly being held by greedy United, American, and Delta Airlines.
What?! I have flown from Sky Harbor to central California nearly a dozen times in the past five years alone and it has always taken at least 2 hours. How come it only took you a little under an hour?
It’s around 1 hour to San Diego and the LA Area, but to San Francisco and the Bay Area it can take around around 2 hours
because CenCali is a much greater distance than LAX, SAN area from Phoenix
I’ve never found Southwest to be a LCC. Sometimes with advance purchase a good deal can be had. When I lived in a United hub city I would regularly compare SW with legacy carriers. Often the prices were close. SW fanboys can tout the free baggage but being a legacy carrier credit card holder I received baggage benefits. Nothing against SW but in my experience I never saved enough money to make flying them worthwhile.
I went to Phoenix for Metallica show but it was canceled so the show is gonna be next weekend they canceled it because of Covid-19 😡
T s x o a a e
I’ll tell you something funny.
Southwest Airlines doesn’t exist. Yes, there are airplanes painted with the “Southwest” logo. But no airline in the world could exist as a private company. And the reason is simple.
Boeing and other plane factories are unionized, which dramatically raises the price of the planes. A new passenger plane that seats (for example) two hundred people is made from a few million dollars worth of raw materials. But the finished plane sells for two hundred million dollars. That’s an incredible mark-up.
But that’s only the first expense. In order for the plane to be sold, a bank must offer a loan for two hundred million dollars. That loan is usually made at eight percent. Sometimes higher. So the cost of the plane, plus the cost of the loan is around four hundred million dollars. Then there’s taxes, maintenance, salaries, airport fees, training, fuel, insurance, upgrades, and repairs.
That puts the total cost of a new passenger plane at six hundred million dollars. So $99 dollar discount tickets aren’t going to cover that huge financial investment. The actual cost of a single seat on a domestic flight is close to a thousand dollars.
So how do Southwest and all the other airlines offer such cheap flights? Easy: By using payroll taxes to subsidize the airlines. On a domestic flight, the passenger only pays twenty percent of the actual ticket price. Payroll taxes cover the other eighty percent. That’s how Washington works: Deception, fraud, and theft everyday.
So let’s end the game: Airlines like Virgin, Southwest, and United will no longer be subsidized. Ticket prices will reflect the actual cost of doing business. So from now on, a normal flight from New York to L.A. is $2500.
A 737 and it's operating costs is nowhere near 600 million dollars lol
@@jviation737 I’ll be glad to look at your price sheet. Where is it?
@@ronliebermannShow me yours
@@ronliebermannWhere’s yours?
@@Adumzzinthehouse I don’t think that long distance travel is good for anyone. So I have no plans to fly. The whole world is suffering from tourist-induced alienation. It’s better for people to find happiness where they live by removing all the propaganda, extortion, monopolies, inflation, and taxes. Happiness at home should be normal.