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Jun 7, 2019 | 1:21 am

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Originally Posted by Misco60

It's hardly the most impartial of articles, is it?

The two routes the blog chooses to illustrate BA's "price gouging", LHR-JFK and LHR-LAX, are routes on which it faces a great deal of competition. If passengers don't want to pay the seat selection fees then they can choose another airline on which they get free seat selection but end up paying more overall.

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Is this necessarily the case ... ?

Are you saying for sure that if passengers were to choose another carrier (perhaps the likes of Virgin, Air NZ, or AA) for, say, a LHR-LAX trip, they would - after seat selection - always “end up paying more overall” than with BA ...... ??

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