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Re:The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight over Re... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:19AM (#28286269)
> if you weren’t supposed to use it they wouldn’t pay extra to install seats with a reclining mechanism

Of course they would, if being able to say they have this option in their marketing materials increased sales enough to cover for the expense.

Be under no illusion that they care about your comfort, or even that there are seats and airplanes involved in their business. They're showing time and again that it's just an optimization problem for getting money out of people; that it happens to be air travel is incidental.

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Re:The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight over Re... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @06:44PM (#28295903)
I'm so confused that you got downvoted.

It should be obvious that they paid the money because they profit from it. It should also be obvious that they would want that profit whether or not you're supposed to use it.

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