<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Ken hAAmer:
Yes, but then AC would miss the opportunity to extract more money from you.</font>
It is money they have already lost by people not booking because of this handy feature offered by other carriers.
It's a different way of thinking, don't nickle and dime the customer, don't piss off the customer, and garner greater revenues from increased business instead of a few bucks from a pissed off customer that won't come back.