"Paying less for air travel is unethical," say Airlines.

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Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

Fetus Tree posted:

these companies literally want to keep people ignorant as to how their practices work for the sole purpose of unnecessarily extracting more money from them

i understand why they want to do it

im not going to loving support that decision.

disclosure: i've been working in contract analysis for years now and i have no interest in supporting intentional ignorance to a customer base to disguise what is essentially an unnecessary surcharge.

if airlines dont like it then they can charge a fee for seeing what their schedules are. let the free market decide their fate.

oh wait. if we had done that, this literally wouldn't be a topic lol

Operating a Big Business 101: Free-market when things are working in your favor, Socialism when things don't work out, then continue to preach Free-market and denounce Socialism

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Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

, or I guess I should say mainly our Tyrant King, is going to war with our fantastic Postal System because even though it is fantastic it isn't privatized, which is not a good thing for companies.

He inserted a CEO who's job it's been to ransack and break it, and since he came in they went from making a profit to losing money, which caused some rumblings about privatizing it...

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Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

TwoStepBoog posted:

I believe the idea is, if you look up the same flight multiple times, they know you're more likely to buy it or that you'll need to fly that day, so they raise the prices.
And if you see the prices raise, you may buy the tickets just to make sure they don't go up any more.

This is actually a pretty rare occurrence (and usually only happens on websites like Orbitz and Expedia) from what I've read and experienced, but it's better to just make sure you're not getting shafted.

e;fb

Only slightly related, but there was also a WSJ article a couple of years ago that showed Orbitz was trying to steer you towards more expensive flights and hotels if you were searching from a Mac device.

How is this not illegal as gently caress

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Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

Decebal posted:

You don't have to regulate something like this because the free market will disfavor it and it will disappear.

*Proceeds to fight to have information sharing illegal*

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