Most of those "it's $50 for you while everyone else pays $250 at the same time" tickets do not go to low income customers.
They go to those who can steer future purchases: travel office employees on personal trips, etc. That's a form of a soft kickback. The $50 tickets due to an airline making a bad demand forecast and running a fire sale on unsold tickets will not disappear.
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Most of those "it's $50 for you while everyone else pays $250 at the same time" tickets do not go to low income customers.
They go to those who can steer future purchases: travel office employees on personal trips, etc. That's a form of a soft kickback. The $50 tickets due to an airline making a bad demand forecast and running a fire sale on unsold tickets will not disappear.