Originally Posted by
sbm12
Effective 8 May 2015 the US DoT will no longer enforce the requirement that airlines honor mistake fares.
I think this is a shame.
The former (well, I suppose, current but unenforced) policy is a very sensible one that forces airlines to honor the sales that they voluntarily make.
It's quite the double standard: Airlines have no qualms about holding us to the mistakes that we make. I, for one, have absolutely no qualms about holding them to the mistakes that they make.
The DOT should enforce the policy as written and let the airlines live with their own mistakes, just as the airlines compel us consumers to do.