Originally Posted by
Often1
The car service which takes you to/from the airport, hotel at which you stay, restaurants at which you eat and car rental company at the destination, don't generally offer bereavement rates, why should air carriers?
So, why is it unreasonable that any discount is offered?...
This is one of the fascinating things to me (and not to say the OP or anyone here is holding airlines responsible). But why does an airline especially receive the brunt of people's sense of what a company "should" / "shouldn't" do? E.g. more than the taxi driver or hotel that you mentioned.
Is it because air travel is the most expensive part of a trip? Or the biggest constraining factor of someone getting somewhere?
Just interested in how airlines manage to be the target of ire...