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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by f311a on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:31PM (#50459710)
> How do they plan on stopping me from using Claude code with the Claude in chrome plugin, or some other computer use agent?

The endgame is just to raise prices for everyone. It's not like airlines are making a ton of money. Everything affects their profits and small margins.

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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by fn-mote on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:17PM (#50461038)
Do you mean stop gouging some customers based on information asymmetry? Doesn’t bother me.

Imagine if you just went to their site and honestly got the best price that day / week.

I’m actually skeptical that there are loss-leader seats being sold on normal routes (eg where one airline is not trying to force another out of business). Does anybody have a source for that? I have always assumed that low prices were to extract as much value as possible from a plane on a given route.

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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by hello5010 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:55AM (#50463566)
> > The endgame is just to raise prices for everyone.

> Do you mean stop gouging some customers based on information asymmetry? Doesn’t bother me.

No. The airline will simply 2x gouge everyone instead of the 1x now.

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