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Old Apr 26, 2024 | 2:02 pm
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Originally Posted by AJNEDC
How is this about to come back in fares? Whatever fare is charged, airlines will have to refund if the situations identified by this DOT policy occurs.
Well the airline does net the fare increase for all the flights that do arrive on time.

Further, quite a bit of travel is price sensitive. I see no possible reason why this policy should result in price increases.
Agreed mostly. My above statement was made with no consideration of this context.
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