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Old 11-14-2005, 02:59 PM   #7 (permalink)
sailor
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Originally Posted by maleficent
So you think we should regulate the airlines?
Hahaha, depends on whether you consider them a necessary public infrastructure... Seems like the government does, as many times as they've bailed them out. Given that most of the airlines are still afloat because of government subsidies, I don't think its necessarily a bad thing to impose some consumer protection rules on them

Back on topic, yeah, the airlines are frequently counterintuitive. Like how it's cheaper to buy a roundtrip ticket than a one-way, even for the same flight. And things like what's happening with you. It's crazy sometimes...
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