Originally Posted by
mapleg
Because speculators would buy up cheap sale price tickets and gouge people on the resale price.
That's what I was thinking too.
You see an MR, and book it to earn a few miles. With name changes allowed, you'd have people whose full-time job it is to find those MRs, book all the tickets, then attempt to resell them for 3x the price.
It's interesting though. I seem to recall a SCOTUS ruling that purchases of electronic media must be allowed to resell them. And that was a tough decision, because of how easy it is to buy an mp3, and then sell it ten times. With something like an airline ticket, you'd only be capable of selling as many as you bought.
I hope this never makes it into a Canadian court, because I'm worried about what would happen if people were allowed to resell them.
Now, if you were allowed to change the name on a ticket for a normal change fee, would that solve everyone's problem?