Originally Posted by
strickerj
As mentioned in some examples already, some routings cost a premium over others (maybe there’s a new flagship lounge in their big hub), but of course we’re only selling you A to B and the exact routing isn’t guaranteed. And feel free to pay extra for a certain seat assignment, but don’t expect those to be guaranteed either. Maybe the public would have more sympathy for the airlines on this issue if they didn’t routinely pull shenanigans like these.
So, in short, I don’t personally do it, but I find it hard to think of those that do as being thieves. Yes, you agreed to the CoC when buying the ticket, but what kind of world is it where you even have to agree to 15 pages of legalese just to buy an airline ticket?
While I think a lot of us are sympathetic, this and others are arguments sound like "why I don't feel bad about breaching the CoC in order to pay less" and not "why the CoC is legally unenforceable".