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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by kwhitefoot on Friday April 28, 2017 @04:09PM (#14222664)
Contracts are irrelevant here because there is no competition in that market, you have to accept the contract or walk to your destination. For contracts to be meaningful the parties have to be of comparable power and both parties must have the opportunity to choose a competing good or service. This is plainly not the case here.
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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by wutbrodo on Saturday April 29, 2017 @02:44PM (#14228046)
Sure? Except that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. The irrelevant statement here is yours.

I was specifically rebutting the claim that airlines are getting "special treatment" [by the government] by being allowed to sell services they don't fulfill. The service they're selling is not "a guaranteed flight".

Words have meaning and facts matter, beyond "Airlines bad, pick a side". It's possible to think that they're anti-competitive and shitty without making entirely false claims about them (as the gp comment did).

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