Originally Posted by Global guy
After reading the thread hoping to find an official reason for this stupid new policy I still have not found any good reason why this had to happen. If it is: a) liability- what was it costing? how often was it happening?
or b) restrictive connection times- then why not disallow the tight connections?
Bad move
The reason is obvious.
Airlines play with fares and destinations to maximize what they manage to extract from you.
People play the same game, trying to minimize their costs. They do cut their travel into separate tickets in cases of destinations for which the airlines believe they can extract inordinately high fares.
The new policy is just a way to penalize people who do the latter. Based upon the belief that making people more mizerable will lead them to change their behavior, i.e. pay more.
Of course, what is not included in the model is the (negative) value of the bad feelings.