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Re:Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after co... by pxx on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:16PM (#34460831)
No. It depends on the market, but if it is what's known as a "round-trip" market (typically international itineraries), it shifts to become "often" the case.

Airlines are all about price discrimination. Leisure travellers benefit inordinately from this behavior.

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after co... by jrockway on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:29PM (#34460980)
> Leisure travellers benefit inordinately from this behavior.

Is that necessarily true? Charging business travelers more means those businesses have to get the money from somewhere, and one way to do that is to pass the cost onto their customers. So even if you don't fly, you're now paying $0.001 on your next box of cereal to subsidize leisure travelers. Or maybe not! I don't have any data.

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