<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by taucher:
Originally posted by Thumper:
I am not saying that theft and murder are equal, but that I have a difficult time finding excuses for either. They are both immoral, as well as illegal.</font>
Points of clarification:
1) I'm not advocating anything illegal; I don't support stealing any more than you do. But I don't support airlines attempting to extort money from pax for legal articles in checked luggage which do not exceed weight or size restrictions, either. There are zero extra costs involved for the airlines, and they refuse to accept liability for said items. They can't even argue the charges are based on high demand.
2) On the dive computer example, if the ticket agent doesn't specifically ask you if you have one, do you volunteer it?
3) Would you ever back-to-back ticket using different airlines for personal travel?
Bravo! My sentiments exactly.
There's not a whole lot that's been talked about in this thread that's "illegal," no matter how much you stretch the letter of the law. Against airline policies, sure, but not illegal.
In many of these cases, you're not talking about BREAKING THE LAW. If I needed to go somewhere on Tuesday, returning on Thursday, then my "moral dilemma" would come down to: Do I spend $400 of my hard-earned money for a couple of RT tickets on different carriers? Or give them an extra $1,000 on top of that,
not because the law says I must, but because someone in the revenue maximization department some years back decided this was a good way to meet their earnings projections for this quarter?
Sorry, but my thoughts on that question are pretty cut and dried. If that makes me an immoral person, well, then so be it.
Certain of you may think FT, and some of its members, are putting our morals on the express train to you-know-where. I, on the other hand, like to think of it as a game. It's a game between large corporations, who want to maximize revenue, and individuals, who want to minimize cost. They hold all the cards. We just have to find the ways to do the best with what we're dealt. And by collaborating, we can bring about better results for a larger group of individuals.
How, exactly, is that immoral?
SP