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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-18/united-orbitz-sue-travel-site-over-hidden-city-ticketing-1-.html For you TL;DR folks: A smart man invented a site that helps customers buy tickets with layovers in the cities they actually want to visit, so they just get off there rather than fly all the way to the end of their ticket (it's often cheaper to buy a ticket for a longer flight w/ layover than a shorter, direct one. Go figure). Now United is crying foul and trying to sue him. gently caress airlines forever. Bastards have been treating customers like poo poo for years and they beg the government for more subsidies rather than adjust what is an obviously unsustainable business model. Anything that sticks it to the airlines' wallets is fine by me. They're nothing but a bunch of crooks (as the old folks would say).
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I heard that for every time you ride a plane and don't crash your chances of crashing the next time double. It's sort of this diminishing return effect that prevents people from flying too much. But what about the pilots?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:21
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So what are they going to do, march people to their connecting flight with cattle prods?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:22
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all they have to say is that potential terrorists could be getting off on these layovers and it makes it harder to track people
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Dec 30, 2014 18:24
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lol gently caress airlines
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Dec 30, 2014 18:24
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Applewhite posted:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-18/united-orbitz-sue-travel-site-over-hidden-city-ticketing-1-.html I like the part where they're considering voiding people's tickets without refund.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:24
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Wouldn't the airlines be happy the person left at their layover thus saving them fuel costs on the second leg of the trip?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:26
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open container posted:Wouldn't the airlines be happy the person left at their layover thus saving them fuel costs on the second leg of the trip? In a sane world, the system as-is wouldn't even exist and force people to do this. But when they have people paying less to take another leg, their thought process gets really hosed up.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:27
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Airlines are good, and, in this case, they're right. I hope this guy they're suing loses everything, and ends up even poorer than me, if that's even possible
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Dec 30, 2014 18:31
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Companies should do everything in their power to gently caress over their customers. The airlines did nothing wrong.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:35
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Is this in like the Terms of Service for all the airlines? I don't read them so e: and Lol like they hold the plane at all if a person doesn't board at the right time
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Dec 30, 2014 18:36
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RavenKrows posted:I like the part where they're considering voiding people's tickets without refund. What's he go8ng to do? Sue in Switzerland or wherever the arbitration clause is set up in?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:37
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hahaha the airlines are being crybabies big fat crybabies
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Dec 30, 2014 18:37
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:Airlines are good, and, in this case, they're right. I hope this guy they're suing loses everything, and ends up even poorer than me, if that's even possible  the airline executives live extravagant lifestyles because they simply work harder than us lesser people, and it's disgusting that certain lesser people want to steal their hard-earned wealth
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Dec 30, 2014 18:38
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Windows 98 posted:I heard that for every time you ride a plane and don't crash your chances of crashing the next time double. It's sort of this diminishing return effect that prevents people from flying too much. The statistical chance of crashing is the same every time you fly.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:39
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comcast is going to merge with the airline companies and im going to have sex finally
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Dec 30, 2014 18:40
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Windows 98 posted:I heard that for every time you ride a plane and don't crash your chances of crashing the next time double. It's sort of this diminishing return effect that prevents people from flying too much. isn't it the same maths that means the more older siblings a child has the more likely they are to be gay? what i'm asking is how many plane flgihts turn you gay
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Dec 30, 2014 18:40
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Quickscope420dad posted:isn't it the same maths that means the more older siblings a child has the more likely they are to be gay? it only took one for me, but then the next one changed me straight again sry.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:42
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so, don't buy a direct flight if you want to save money? I don't get how this works. I want to go to Cleveland from atlanta, do I buy a ticket to chicago that has a layover in cleveland?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:42
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My dad was in a plane crash so I figure there's no chance I will also be in a plane crash.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:42
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KoRMaK posted:so, don't buy a direct flight if you want to save money? I don't get how this works. I want to go to Cleveland from atlanta, do I buy a ticket to chicago that has a layover in cleveland? If you want to pay less, yes.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:42
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RAGE HOLE posted:My dad was in a plane crash so I figure there's no chance I will also be in a plane crash. did he die in the plane crash
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Dec 30, 2014 18:43
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Quickscope420dad posted:isn't it the same maths that means the more older siblings a child has the more likely they are to be gay? 
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Dec 30, 2014 18:44
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save money by booking a long haul  flight when actually you only want to stop at one of our playover resorts
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Dec 30, 2014 18:45
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Yivgev posted:did he die in the plane crash He did not die. So maybe the odds of me being in a plane crash are still there, but the odds of two people in the same family being in a plane crash and surviving are just what is impossible. I should try to get a family member struck by lightning so I can also feel safer in bad weather.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:45
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Applewhite posted:If you want to pay less, yes. Aren't I wasting the money I paid to get to chicago anyway?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:46
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It doesn't make sense why it would be cheaper to do this in the first place. This is like if there was a restaurant where it costs $5 to buy a medium drink and it costs $3 to buy a large drink. If I buy the large drink and pour out half of it people get angry for some reason.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:46
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Applewhite posted:it only took one for me, but then the next one changed me straight again sry. Do you change orientation every time you fly?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:47
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Spectacle Rock posted:It doesn't make sense why it would be cheaper to do this in the first place. This is like if there was a restaurant where it costs $5 to buy a medium drink and it costs $3 to buy a large drink. If I buy the large drink and pour out half of it people get angry for some reason. fuel efficiency + pilot wages of a flight which covers fewer destinations than a longer one it works out
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Dec 30, 2014 18:47
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But what about your luggage?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:47
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Spectacle Rock posted:It doesn't make sense why it would be cheaper to do this in the first place. This is like if there was a restaurant where it costs $5 to buy a medium drink and it costs $3 to buy a large drink. If I buy the large drink and pour out half of it people get angry for some reason. Because people dont want to go on flights with lay overs, so they actively avoid them. The only people who take those flights are those that have to, so they make it cheaper so it'll actually sell.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:48
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NEver taking a direct flight has always been a way to save money. I still don't get how this works - is it that the layover flight from atlanta->cle->chi is cheaper than atlanta->cle?
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Dec 30, 2014 18:49
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KoRMaK posted:
Yes. Some how paying for two flights is cheaper than paying for one flight. So jus pay for two but only use one
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Dec 30, 2014 18:53
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A CRUNK BIRD posted:Airlines are good, and, in this case, they're right. I hope this guy they're suing loses everything, and ends up even poorer than me, if that's even possible actually no they are not right. if they had instead said "we have a department called "Weight and Balance" that is responsible for the physics calculations that keep the plane from crashing into the ground, and a sudden loss or increase of aggregate weight will skew those calculations" and then admitted that it is loving greedy and lovely to charge people more money for a direct trip because they know they will pay three times the ticket price for the sake of convenience well, then they would be right
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Dec 30, 2014 18:53
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KoRMaK posted:is it that the layover flight from atlanta->cle->chi is cheaper than atlanta->cle? Yes! It literally works like this. A flight from "atlanta->cle->chi" might costs $500 while a flight from "atlanta->cle" costs $700. So, someone who really just wants to go to cle will buy the "atlanta->cle->chi" and when arriving at cle, simply does not board their connecting aircraft. edit: Beaten; this thread moves really fast.
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Dec 30, 2014 18:54
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KoRMaK posted:NEver taking a direct flight has always been a way to save money. yes, that's it
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Dec 30, 2014 18:55
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Wamdoodle posted:Do you change orientation every time you fly? Not since a couple years ago when I took a flight that turned me bi (it was a biplane).
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Dec 30, 2014 18:55
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For a fun time check the price of a roundtrip airfare to europe originating in an american city then reverse it for the same dates. Wow now it is 50% of the price!
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Dec 30, 2014 18:55
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Quickscope420dad posted:fuel efficiency + pilot wages of a flight which covers fewer destinations than a longer one Dur dur dee doo, I didn't bother reading that these are all connecting flights further promoting the pointless nature of the higher cost flights.
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Again though, what about your luggage? I'm actually planning two trips this year, I might just try it
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