During the Egyptian revolution I was in Cairo, trying to find a flight out of that shithole to Istanbul. The flights were canceled I guess because the tickets were very expensive. However tickets from Sharm el Sheikh to Istanbul connecting at Cairo were very cheap. I asked the airline company if I can buy that flight, skip the first connection and just catch the second connection at Cairo to Istanbul. They said no, if I skip the first, the second one gets canceled automatically.
How is it possible for a S.e.S.-Cairo-Istanbul flight to be cheaper than Cairo-Istanbul flight and why is it against the interest of the airline companies to forbid me from skipping the first one and taking the second one? If someone has more insight to this, can he explain to me? If not, fuck the airline companies. I say, trick them greedy moneygrabbing assholes as much as you can. It's their fault that non-stop flights are more expensive than connected flights. Actually it's a concrete proof that they are conning us.
There are certain industries that the government should intervene with and not let the free market decide what they charge. Airlines are one of them. Last year in Turkey the government set a 130 dollars limit for domestic flight tickets. Nothing bad happened. No airline bankrupted. No tickets on the black market. Turkish Airlines was still one of the fastest growing airlines in the world. It only did good for the customers. The regulation got canceled because some greedy airlines started violating it and when the others saw their competitors violating it they violated too. This would not work in international flights, but if a government passes such law for domestic flights and keeps it under strict supervision to prevent any airline from violating it, both customers and airlines will benefit from this. Only then people would not need to ''skiplag''. Until then, fuck'em.
How is it possible for a S.e.S.-Cairo-Istanbul flight to be cheaper than Cairo-Istanbul flight and why is it against the interest of the airline companies to forbid me from skipping the first one and taking the second one? If someone has more insight to this, can he explain to me? If not, fuck the airline companies. I say, trick them greedy moneygrabbing assholes as much as you can. It's their fault that non-stop flights are more expensive than connected flights. Actually it's a concrete proof that they are conning us.
There are certain industries that the government should intervene with and not let the free market decide what they charge. Airlines are one of them. Last year in Turkey the government set a 130 dollars limit for domestic flight tickets. Nothing bad happened. No airline bankrupted. No tickets on the black market. Turkish Airlines was still one of the fastest growing airlines in the world. It only did good for the customers. The regulation got canceled because some greedy airlines started violating it and when the others saw their competitors violating it they violated too. This would not work in international flights, but if a government passes such law for domestic flights and keeps it under strict supervision to prevent any airline from violating it, both customers and airlines will benefit from this. Only then people would not need to ''skiplag''. Until then, fuck'em.