Can you blame airlines for charging business customers more? If people are willing to pay, then charge them. Lots of industries do it. Think about cell phones. For most of us we are at work anyways during peak calling hours. You can have all the minutes you want during nights and weekends. It's the weekday afternoons that cost a lot. That's so that businesses who really need those minutes have to pay a fortune. And anyways, don't think that you would be getting those $200 fares to visit family for a week, if there were no price discrimination. Look at India as an example. They just have 2 fares for each route. DEL-MAA will cost $500 Rt for a 1000 mile trip. That's a competitive market too. I need to travel from trz-pat and to do this I have to buy 3 tickets. trz-maa, maa-del, del-pat. It will cost me $1000 jsut to fly to 2 cities that are 1400 miles apart. I normally pay $200 to travel IAH-EWR which is the same distance. Cost of labor in India is a lot lower too, so I bet we would be spending $700 RT just to go from IAH-NYC if there were no price discrimination. Sure if you have to buy tickets for business, the American system hurts, but for most of us, its a blessing that we take forgranted. There is no way that airlines could afford to sell tickets at $200 each for the entire plane.