> The answer to this behavior isn't being mad at or boycotting particular airlines, it is regulation.

Or, you know…accept that a cat is a cat, and stop trying to regulate scratching simply because you don’t like it.

(I get that you probably understand this, but the “regulation is the solution” is kind of a leap. People whining about market pricing have always struck me as just fundamentally misunderstanding what capitalism is.)

"The market" is not a thing. My point is that there are rational agents making decisions here, and it's not even some intractable situation where you have 1,000 players and someone will necessarily be a scumbag.

I literally have heard "if you hate it, you should have asked the regulators to stop me from doing it" from a techie, and man. No. You have agency. You own this. If you need a regulator to stop you, you're not a good person, sorry.