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Regular economy airplane tickets are a lot cheaper than they used to be N years ago for any N. I fit well in a regular airline seat. Why should I pay more beca

• mindslight 9y ago
  "Why should I pay more" isn't really an argument in the context of a company that is trying to extract the maximum price from every single person. Someone else's price going down will not make yours go up. But as I said, if the variation in humans is really that large, then charging a linear combination for depth/weight based on actual costs would be completely understandable. For the current state, let's take a quick look at say United [0]. A regular ticket from BOS to LAX is $139, which is in line with the general range one would expect to pay [1]. The upgrade to "Economy Plus" is $99. So for a pitch increase of 20%, the price is 70% more?! This is price discrimination based on immutable physical qualities - straight up gouging. [0] I chose what I thought would be the worst offender here [1] and has been roughly the price for well over a decade, disregarding the new bag fees