Isn't is fairly obvious that the space is owned by the airline? The problem is not that the space is being sold -- it is obviously expensive to have space on a

Isn't is fairly obvious that the space is owned by the airline? The problem is not that the space is being sold -- it is obviously expensive to have space on a plane and we all know it is being sold. The problem is that it's being sold twice by the airline. The airline gives both customers the impression that they have a purchased a license to use it. We get suckered into it as though it were some tricky ethics issue, when it's really just a mess created by the airline's ambiguity.