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I am in Kona, Hawaii. I am waiting for my flight to Los Angeles, connecting to Denver. I sit there and see they are about to board the direct flight to Denver. There are maybe 100 people there, so the plane is half empty. I jump to the airline’s site to see how much it would cost to switch flights. Only carry-on, so it is doable.
They would make me pay the same as the entire trip Denver - Kona and back just to get on the direct flight, that is half empty. Notice that if I went on this flight, they could theoretically sell the seats on the other two flights, so they’d rather lose money than let me get home early.
There is something deeply wrong with current Capitalism.
There is something wrong with capitalism, its a tool for the rich to exploit workers and consolidate wealth and power.
Fixed that for you
Airlines these days make more money off of points/credit card shenanigans than they do off of moving passengers on planes, and it shows.
How do you know that? I’m asking because I know someone high up at an airline and they told me exactly that.
The poor care about making money. The rich care about telling others what they can do and how to live
airlines are more or less banks with a weird way of withdrawing