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Re:Germany pushes for ‘pay as you fly’ model by LadyCailin on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:23AM (#32688968)
Agreed. General consumer protection laws would cover this just fine, with the added benefit of applying everywhere, not just airlines. On the other hand, airline tickets are one of the larger priced things people tend to buy regularly, so maybe it anyways does make sense to single them out.
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Re:Germany pushes for ‘pay as you fly’ model by isitmadeofglass on Friday September 02, 2022 @01:26PM (#32693393)
Germany already has General consumer protection laws. That’s why you get a refund a couple of months after the flight was canceled.

That still doesn’t make it ok that you might have a large sum locked for up to a year while they figure things out.

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Re:Germany pushes for ‘pay as you fly’ model by xboxnolifes on Friday September 02, 2022 @03:20PM (#32694762)
Sounds like your consumer protection laws could do with some updating.
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Re:Germany pushes for ‘pay as you fly’ model by isitmadeofglass on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:07AM (#32700661)
Yes, that’s the point of the whole suggestion to not pay the tickets until checkin.
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