alt Hacker NewsWhat you are advocating is a race to the bottom for social norms. Instead lashing out at airlines with shitty business practices with your own shitty actions, maybe go to different ones.
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which airlines are not doing shitty business practices?
some time ago I was thinking that "well, these dark patterns are there, but I am buying from Ryanair so what I expected"
and then I was buying from more upscale company and it had literally the same dark patterns trying to mislead and upsell you
Airlines are mostly monopolies. There is almost never an exact competing route.
What different ones? Do you live in the US? There are 30ish percent less airlines than there were in 2009 due to consolidations. There are hubs where airlines monopolize entire airports and drive costs up.
Have you ever been to Europe, if you are living in the US? I'd like you to compare costs of flying regionally there compared to here.
Airlines are just another example of oligarchic control - it's incredible that people are expressing sympathy here as if the consumer and the airlines are on equal footing. I hope you enjoy your customized dynamic pricing based on personal information they've collected about you.
Fuck you, airlines.
I'm not advocating for a race to the bottom. I think we're at the bottom already, and sadly nothing we can do personally is going to change that.
I don't want people to go out of their way to hurt the companies, purposefully buying tickets they don't want and then refunding them or something. I'm just saying that on the occasion that a mistake happens, you shouldn't feel bad about using whatever legal/procedural recourse available so that you don't have to just eat the cost.
I would go for alternative airlines if there were any. Alas.