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Booking a flight and then not getting on it isn’t fraud. By this logic buying a sandwich and then not eating it should be fraud because you implied that you int

Booking a flight and then not getting on it isn’t fraud. By this logic buying a sandwich and then not eating it should be fraud because you implied that you intended to eat it then didn’t

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
If I buy the last sandwich, then I've deprived someone else of that sandwich by purchasing it. In case you haven't noticed, seats on an aircraft are a limited resource. You make a "reservation" to declare that you intend to occupy that seat, and the corollary is that nobody else will be able to occupy it. If enough fraudsters reserve seats without using them, the airline has another problem. Say they loaded the galley with 100 peanut packets because 100 passengers promised to board, but now there's only 20 on the flight, what are we gonna do with all these peanuts? As I mentioned, airlines have plenty of policies to deal with reserved but unused seats, but you've still intentionally taken away a finite resource because you wanted to save a couple bucks.
- blibble 3y ago
  > As I mentioned, airlines have plenty of policies to deal with reserved but unused seats the ticket on the second leg had been paid for > but you've still intentionally taken away a finite resource because you wanted to save a couple bucks. it's really going to blow your mind when you realise airlines do the reverse all the time they call it "overbooking" knowingly selling the same seat twice? sounds like "low level fraud" by your definition
- circuit10 3y ago
  > If I buy the last sandwich, then I've deprived someone else of that sandwich by purchasing it. It’s not considered fraud though
  - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
    It's not fraud but how many people are going to laud the virtue of purchasing a sandwich to throw it away?
    - circuit10 3y ago
      It’s not good but I feel like it should be blamed on the airline’s pricing structure
gruez 3y ago
The key difference is that the sandwich didn't come with a terms of carriage, and a ticket does.

Booking a flight and then not getting on it isn’t fraud. By this logic buying a sandwich and then not eating it should be fraud because you implied that you intended to eat it then didn’t

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

If I buy the last sandwich, then I've deprived someone else of that sandwich by purchasing it. In case you haven't noticed, seats on an aircraft are a limited resource. You make a "reservation" to declare that you intend to occupy that seat, and the corollary is that nobody else will be able to occupy it. If enough fraudsters reserve seats without using them, the airline has another problem. Say they loaded the galley with 100 peanut packets because 100 passengers promised to board, but now there's only 20 on the flight, what are we gonna do with all these peanuts? As I mentioned, airlines have plenty of policies to deal with reserved but unused seats, but you've still intentionally taken away a finite resource because you wanted to save a couple bucks.

blibble 3y ago
> As I mentioned, airlines have plenty of policies to deal with reserved but unused seats the ticket on the second leg had been paid for > but you've still intentionally taken away a finite resource because you wanted to save a couple bucks. it's really going to blow your mind when you realise airlines do the reverse all the time they call it "overbooking" knowingly selling the same seat twice? sounds like "low level fraud" by your definition
circuit10 3y ago
> If I buy the last sandwich, then I've deprived someone else of that sandwich by purchasing it. It’s not considered fraud though
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  It's not fraud but how many people are going to laud the virtue of purchasing a sandwich to throw it away?
  - circuit10 3y ago
    It’s not good but I feel like it should be blamed on the airline’s pricing structure

gruez 3y ago

The key difference is that the sandwich didn't come with a terms of carriage, and a ticket does.