> eventually you have to directly fight against the rights of your passengers The airlines have already fought and won this battle. Airlines contracts of carri

> eventually you have to directly fight against the rights of your passengers The airlines have already fought and won this battle. Airlines contracts of carriage already prohibit hidden city ticketing. We should also consider the possibility that the profits from, e.g., an the LAX->SFO->PDX and LAX->SFO routes are not sufficient to cover expenses if you impose the external requirement that the former must always be more expensive than the latter. Maybe, under these constraints, people decide there are better things to invest their money in than setting up these airline routes, or maybe they replace these two routes with a single, direct LAX-PDX route, and nobody gets to fly to SFO.