Originally Posted by
cbn42
So is it OK for me to forge a boarding pass to get onto a flight I haven't paid for? Hey, airlines are out to make a buck, so why can't I?
Exactly, and it is those people who you are ripping off by not following the rules. If you don't pay the proper cost for your ticket, who do you think is going to pay the difference? The airline's shareholders? It is going to get passed on as higher fares to those who are willing to follow contracts that we sign.
no and no
I have outlined this before. The cost of the seat, plus profit is worked out in minute detail by the airline.
On any given flight it will know exactly how many seats can be sold and at what cost. It will know how many no-shows. If it is flying A->B it will know, for example, out of 100 seats, that it can only sell 80 at full cost. The other 20 are then available for connecting services A->B->C.
You are snagging one of those seats A-B-C. Not one of the A-B only seats.
If they could sell all their seats A-B only they wouldn't need to offer any others and could charge them all at full fare.
So you're not stealing anything, just taking one of the few seats they set aside for A-B-C.