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US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

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663 points duxup | 1 comments | 24 Sep 25 12:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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doodaddy ◴[24 Sep 25 13:12 UTC] No.45359838[source]▶
> Instead of the clear, itemized pricing system that passengers currently rely on, airlines could hide fees until later in the booking process…

They call what we have now “clear”? Where when looking at a page of flights I don’t know how much the multitude of economy/economy+/economy++/premium economy/business/business++ seats will cost until I click on each flight? Where every carrier offers slightly different variations of these seats such that I can’t cross-shop on Google Flights?

Is that the clear and transparent system the airlines are complaining about?

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1. wat10000 ◴[24 Sep 25 14:33 UTC] No.45360995[source]▶
What a bizarre example. Gas in the US is priced about as transparently as it is possible to be. There isn't even the thing where you have to add sales taxes on to the posted price, like there is with most other things in the US. Every single station has the total price per gallon, inclusive of all taxes, on a giant sign. The amount you pay is literally the number of gallons you pumped multiplied by that number.

If you're going to make up stories, at least do five seconds of research first to make it vaguely plausible.