Originally Posted by
LaserSailor
if this did go to court, the defendants argument of aaa-bbb is shorter therefore cheaper would be balanced against the plaintiffs submission of 10 years of revenue data showing the market value of aaa-ccc far exceeds aaa-bbb-ccc
no prizes for guessing that outcome.
You won’t litigated on this.
If you do this 'enough' You will lose the ability to travel on their planes and any miles accumulated.
Selling A more than B while A costs less than B is called price gouging. While it's legal most of the time, using price gouging data to prove your loss is a questionable tactics. Besides I don't think companies engaging in price gouging will have moral or legal high grounds against people who find ways to beat that when the case is really debated in court. The airlines are not stupid, they have decent lawyers who understand that.
Yes, plenty of people who have had their accounts closed. But it's based on a different contract. The airlines always argued that you don't own the points in your mileage accounts. So totally different legal basis.
Originally Posted by
findark
Judges have a strong track record of making utterly crazy, nonsensical decisions about highly technical issues they don't understand (see for example Anikeev v Commissoner in the tax court for an issue relevant to something people do on FT), so honestly I would not presume to bet.
Well you just disapproved yourself. If it's as clear cut as your argument of fraud, you shouldn't worry about judge disagreeing with you. They will have to follow the clear cut law.
Originally Posted by
findark
However, it is a red herring to repeatedly say "than HND-IAD-PIT". What was offered for sale was "transportation from HND to PIT" versus "transportation from HND to IAD". The pricing and entire market is based solely on this, and the fact that the transportation to PIT happens to stop in IAD is almost entirely irrelevant to this fact.
No, the airlines is not selling HND-PIT, it's selling HND-IAD-PIT on that particular time/routing for that price. A different HND-PIT time/routhing is sold for different amount. In fact, if there is a nonstop HND-PIT, it likely will cost more. So the HND-IAD leg is completely relevant to the pricing and part of what airline is selling.
Originally Posted by
findark
Private entities can't bring criminal cases, and UA is quite aware that a US attorney is going to be about as interested in this as if you called your local police department and said you had your neighbor on camera going 30 mph in a 25 mph zone outside your house.
Of course you can bring criminal cases through police/DA. If you are a store owner who notice people putting label of AirPods on AirPods Pro, you will call police and police will come. Even if police doesn't come, you can go public and put pressure on police/DA to do something. Since the "loss" of airlines in these cases are far greater (even with a single hidden ticket) than the difference between the AirPods, if the police agrees with your argument of loss, they should be more likely to come.
The rest of your arguments are not worth to be argued about. They are "derived" on things that already don't have basis.