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Loopholes are both parties’ fault. The regulators for forgetting or lacking foresight. And the perp’s for being slimy. Unfortunately being slimy isn’t illegal.
by demondemidi 3y ago
Loopholes are both parties’ fault. The regulators for forgetting or lacking foresight. And the perp’s for being slimy. Unfortunately being slimy isn’t illegal.
- mattmaroon 3y agoI don’t think optimizing revenues legally is slimy. If flying from wherever to Adelaide with a stop in Melbourne where most people deplane is both legal and profitable I’d hardly consider them slimy for doing it. Stupid regulations like the one necessitating this drive costs up for passengers.
- demondemidi 3y agoWe have different ethics.
- fallingknife 3y agoThis practice is not slimy by the airline because everyone is getting exactly what they paid for. The passengers to Melbourne are getting a flight to Melbourne. The passengers to Adelaide are getting a flight to Adelaide. The government is getting the industry protection from international competition that it wanted by banning the airlines from selling flights from Melbourne to Adelaide to fill the seats. The airline wants to minimize empty seats and the government wants to allow domestic airlines to extract excess profit by protecting domestic airlines from competition but DGAF about empty seats. Therefore it is the governments fault that there are empty seats.