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Old Jul 19, 2008, 3:03 pm
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Originally Posted by rabble
But it's really just an outgrowth of the same pricing model which says, hide the cheap fares and make people pay more for convenient fares.
On what do you base your conspiracy theory here, other than simply wanting it to be true for some reason? If they're going to "hide the cheap fares" and not show them to people, wouldn't it be easier to just not have cheap fares? They control the pricing and get no advantages from cheap fares if they don't show them. Most conspiracy theories make some sense; this one doesn't.

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