Government dictating charges of a corporation? Can they tell Apple what to charge for a cell phone? Of course they can, if they can tell Delta what to charge its customers. This spells doom for free enterprise. The main element of Capitalism is "Trade and Industry controlled by private owners for profit". This plan, see below, does away with private controls. How long have I told you woke libs that you will win in the end. Chip, chip, chip, chip...
News article:
The Biden administration is seeking legislation against family seating fees on airlines. President Joe Biden has criticized airlines and hotel companies for add-on fees. Several airlines have made written commitments to guarantee families with children can sit together without an additional fee.Mar 13, 2023
It is none of the government's busiiness.
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@averagejoe1 saidHow dare this President protect American citizens from corporate price gouging! ðŸ˜
Government dictating charges of a corporation? Can they tell Apple what to charge for a cell phone? Of course they can, if they can tell Delta what to charge its customers. This spells doom for free enterprise. The main element of Capitalism is "Trade and Industry controlled by private owners for profit". This plan, see below, does away with private controls. How ...[text shortened]... can sit together without an additional fee.Mar 13, 2023
It is none of the government's busiiness.
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@mchill saidCorporate price gouging? This has nothing to do with price gouging. It's about getting a higher class of service than you pay for due to government fiat.
How dare this President protect American citizens from corporate price gouging! ðŸ˜
Somebody has to pay if someone gets a service they didn't pay for. The only question is whether that somebody is the person who consumed the service or the other customers.
@sh76 saidSomebody has to pay if someone gets a service they didn't pay for. The only question is whether that somebody is the person who consumed the service or the other customers.
Corporate price gouging? This has nothing to do with price gouging. It's about getting a higher class of service than you pay for due to government fiat.
Somebody has to pay if someone gets a service they didn't pay for. The only question is whether that somebody is the person who consumed the service or the other customers.
I don't care. Since our airlines are more than happy to suck up billions of our tax dollars in government subsidies, they can darn well accept some government oversite. This is just another example of corporate America trying to have things both ways. If the airlines want the government out of their business, then they can give the subsidy money back. I'll be happy to deposit a refund check.
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@wajoma saidSee above, the little guy suggests govt should control pricing.
Goobermint invents a bogeyman, the solution for the bogeyman is more goobermint.
mchill, opens the top of his skull, unloads his brain and becomes another useful idiot.
Him aside, we really need to sweat Biden continuing the hell.
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@mchill saidDo you get the idea the mhill person is clueless. Here again, implies subsidies were a bad idea of the 600 or so leaders in our congress. He also thinks we should all pay college loans of grads making several hundred thou a year. What a jester.
Somebody has to pay if someone gets a service they didn't pay for. The only question is whether that somebody is the person who consumed the service or the other customers.
I don't care. Since our airlines are more than happy to suck up billions of our tax dollars in government subsidies, they can darn well accept some government oversite. This is just another example o ...[text shortened]... their business, then they can give the subsidy money back. I'll be happy to deposit a refund check.
Hey Jester, you reading this? Come along now.
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@averagejoe1 saidSo clueless.
Do you get the idea the mhill person is clueless. Here again, implies subsidies were a bad idea of the 600 or so leaders in our congress. He also thinks we should all pay college loans of grads making several hundred thou a year. What a jester.
Hey Jester, you reading this? Come along now.
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@shavixmir saidpseud boy, you forgot the other half of the equation, i.e. the consumers.
Let’s just leave consumers’ rights to big business.
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@sh76
Given that the airline knows passenger's ages (they may even have charged less for a young passenger's ticket), do you think they should warn the parent BEFORE purchase that they will not sit together?
Seems like a meeting-of-minds question over contract expectations. Most parents will assume that an airline will not separate them from their kids - who might scream bloody murder for the whole flight otherwise. Seems distressing for everyone.
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@spruce112358 saidSeems distressing? Oh gosh, call the govt. No one is making them fly, spruce.. and no, the airline should not have to warn the parent before purchase that they will not sit together. It is up to the parent to arrange the best seating for their family on this 300 seat flight.
@sh76
Given that the airline knows passenger's ages (they may even have charged less for a young passenger's ticket), do you think they should warn the parent BEFORE purchase that they will not sit together?
Seems like a meeting-of-minds question over contract expectations. Most parents will assume that an airline will not separate them from their kids - who might scream bloody murder for the whole flight otherwise. Seems distressing for everyone.
The ticket agents are not babysitters. Jesus, we have another lib amongst us.
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@averagejoe1 saidSure they should. That's an expectation of the contract. I'm booking together and some of my party are underage and not responsible for their actions (which the airline knows in advance - they asked our ages.) I MUST be adjacent to them to be able to control their behavior.
the airline should not have to warn the parent before purchase that they will not sit together.
If the airline asks, "Do you want to choose your seats for $80?" and I say "No" because I don't care about Window vs Aisle, and they later spring that they have split up my whole family, that's also unacceptable. I have to control people I am legally responsible for, and the airline cannot make that impossible.
An enforceable contract requires a meeting of the minds.
EDIT: Another interesting way to look at this is: "Can airlines offer a savings of $80 on my ticket if I agree to put my kids under distress and disturb the rights of passengers around them?" Government, which has to enforce this contract (if it is valid) can reasonably say, "No, that's stupid. Don't do that." Which is what has happened.