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Operational cost reductions of the low cost airlines

It's a mystery to passengers how come most airlines take hundreds of bucks out of your wallet for a flight, while the low cost airlines for the same route, often take only the price of a meal in a restaurant! Why? Simple: the latter ones are more cost efficient. This means they cut unnecessary costs. In other words, they don't preoccupy themselves with unnecessary operations that cost money. This means: an airline company can reduce its operating costs (and this way the price of the plane tickets) by eliminating or reorganizing unnecessary money-eating activities.

This means:
  

No free in-flight meals

(if you're dieing for a bite, you have to pay)

Less use of major airports

(operating through smaller ones is cheaper)

Less personnel

(higher work efficiency, less people to pay for)

Modern ticket sales

(often tickets are sold through internet to cut costs)

Maximization of the aircraft use

(flying as often as possible, carrying as many passengers as possible)
 

Selling tickets the cheap way means: less paper operations, less sales personnel, less ticket sales offices... What makes you think of? Online booking of cheap plane tickets! It works. Visitors search through the internet, they make a reservation or buy... Most airlines adopted the method of the boarding code (which also reduces costs and makes operations more simple). No more wide tickets with loads of pages...

But in contradiction to what most travelers believe: low cost airlines don't necessarily cut safety costs! Flying with them is safe, Ryanair and easyJet have brand new jets! And they keep on buying more and more.
Comfort? Can be compared with an economy class type of flight. Less room, but much less price. Now, we think most people are willing to trade their comfort for cheap tickets. Otherwise, none of these airlines would have such enormous success.