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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by account42 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:58AM (#50464724)
What you are advocating is a race to the bottom for social norms. Instead lashing out at airlines with shitty business practices with your own shitty actions, maybe go to different ones.
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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by dzhiurgis on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:44AM (#50465066)
Airlines are mostly monopolies. There is almost never an exact competing route.
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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by matkoniecz on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:27AM (#50465709)
no matching literally the same products is distinct from being a monopoly

some specific routes may have de facto monopoly but many, many are not

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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by rafabulsing on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:24AM (#50465688)
I'm not advocating for a race to the bottom. I think we're at the bottom already, and sadly nothing we can do personally is going to change that.

I don't want people to go out of their way to hurt the companies, purposefully buying tickets they don't want and then refunding them or something. I'm just saying that on the occasion that a mistake happens, you shouldn't feel bad about using whatever legal/procedural recourse available so that you don't have to just eat the cost.

I would go for alternative airlines if there were any. Alas.

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Re:United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on be... by matkoniecz on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:28AM (#50465714)
which airlines are not doing shitty business practices?

some time ago I was thinking that "well, these dark patterns are there, but I am buying from Ryanair so what I expected"

and then I was buying from more upscale company and it had literally the same dark patterns trying to mislead and upsell you

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