Why are domestic flights so Expensive?

marc_t wrote: ↑ Expensive or expansive?

Although these are two different words that mean two different things, they are spelled very similarly, and I think that’s how the confusion creeps in. Having said that, even though the a and e are not next door to one another on the keyboard (I had to check that: I touch-type and most of the letters have worn off my keyboard through over-use), this one does come up fairly frequently.

Expensive means of high cost – either in monetary or some other terms. An expensive training course costs a lot, an expensive manoeuvre might cost the army dear in terms of people or equipment.

Expansive means covering a wide area, or extensive (although I don’t see extensive mixed up with expensive, which you would kind of expect!). It also means relaxed, communicative and genial, when used to describe a person. “The grounds of the castle are expansive”.

So you may have grounds which are both expansive, as in large, and expensive in terms of their cost of upkeep. But there’s going to be no more mixing up of the two words, now, is there?

Swerny wrote: ↑ my wife has to fly Toronto to Windsor for work.

$1300 return.

Madness.

lazycow9 wrote: ↑ What do expensive flights have to do with shopping? This is the Shopping Discussion section.

SatanicWaffle wrote: ↑ Because anybody who needs to fly into Windsor is on expense account...Similar to flying into Houston...Really expensive because it's mostly expense accounts

Phonophoresis wrote: ↑ Could always hidden city ticket on the way there... I take no responsibility for any consequences though.

Swerny wrote: ↑ my wife has to fly Toronto to Windsor for work.

$1300 return.

Madness.