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Old Aug 3, 2015, 5:39 am
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Originally Posted by Doc Savage
Fees which encourage bad behavior by the airlines should not be legal. In this case, it would incentivize the airlines to slow down the exit process in order to annoy passengers into paying the fee.
I doubt it. Airlines are more profitable if they can turn around aircraft fast, other things equal. I doubt that they would want to be forced to lengthen MCTs and change their schedules to align with this.
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