How Budget Airlines Undercut The Majors (Spoiler: Infographics)

Personal theory: Man has a natural propensity to question what he reads but believe anything he sees in neat infographic form. And this is one heck of an infographic, comparing budget airlines (like Southwest) to traditional companies like Delta.

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I have no idea whether or not all of the stats are true, but I believe the shit out of them. Peach versus baby blue is the new good versus evil. Apply haphazard census information to a bathroom guy graphic and it’s un-freggin-questionable. That’s the bathroom guy, after all. He’s never abused my trust by leading me into a women’s restroom only to laugh and laugh while recording the event for a little YouTube subscriber bait.

That’s restraint.

Having flown both types of carriers, I’d have never known that a company like Air France has 10 times the staff of a company like EasyJet. And I don’t know the last time I was served a meal on a non-international flight, no matter how large or expensive the carrier or ticket. [Flickr via Digg]