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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: 0s | 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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code_for_monkey ◴[24 Sep 25 13:21 UTC] No.45359952[source]▶
yeah, now imagine when its even worse
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Mistletoe ◴[24 Sep 25 13:30 UTC] No.45360072[source]▶
I’ve seen the movie Brazil and I wish more people had so they would have voted better.
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smt88 ◴[24 Sep 25 13:53 UTC] No.45360421[source]▶
I'm not sure why you think that would've helped. A lot of the people who won't shut up about 1984 and Ayn Rand still vote for the closest thing to monarchy they can find on their ballots.
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ReptileMan ◴[24 Sep 25 15:46 UTC] No.45361984[source]▶
Okay - democrats will push us in 1984 dystopia where they force you to accept that reality is what they tell you, and republicans will push us in low life high tech Cyberpunk dystopia where corporations reign supreme. Choose your poison.
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buellerbueller ◴[24 Sep 25 15:57 UTC] No.45362164{3}[source]▶
oh, like that classic Democrat line "tylenol causes autism"?
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1. int_19h ◴[29 Sep 25 18:48 UTC] No.45417326{4}[source]▶
Until fairly recently, stuff line anti-vax was far more common on the left. There used to be a joke that it's fairly easy to find concentrations of anti-vaxxers in US - you just need to plot locations of Whole Foods on the map and then draw a circle around each.

(To be fair, though, this was never mainstream in the Democratic party the way these things are now among the Republicans.)