<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by yamaka:
Easy to solve the resale problem (and preserve the extra profit made from price discrimination) by just limiting ticket transfers by the rules of the ticket. So if there is a 21-day advanced purchase requirement, allow transfers only up to 21 days before the flight. </font>
Of course, if they allowed this, they'd also have to address the situation of someone with a less-than-21-day flight rebooking the flight in their name for some distant date, then changing the name now that the reservation is more than 21 days out.