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I still do not really understand it. As I understand it, "free market 101" says that 1 company could alter their price structure so as the price of the service more closely follow the cost of delivery of that service, and they should out-compete everyone else. How does this not happen in the airline industry?
To piggyback off of @Cutlass, the Saturday Night Rule is designed to take advantage of business travelers' demand inelasticity. Business travelers generally don't have as much leeway as leisure travelers to stay over for too long. They are, at least theoretically, on the clock, and the company often doesn't like its time being spent somewhere else where it is more difficult to work even if the price in travel reimbursement is lower. And a company isn't going to cancel a business meeting over the price of a plane ticket.

So airlines can get companies to pay more to send their people home at the end of the work week.

Low-cost airlines attempted to circumvent this concept for awhile last decade, but it petered out pretty quickly. Businesses prefer relationships with specific airlines, limiting the extent to which low-cost carriers can supplant them. The discriminatory pricing really hits smaller businesses and leisure travelers without the give in their schedule to accommodate an extra night's stay, but their demand is inelastic too so they just get screwed.
 
I bought a cable and some software to use the RCA outputs from an old VCR to download my old VHS tapes to my computer. It was pretty cheap. Read the reviews because some are much better than others.
 
Pretty sure it's the last poster of the 50th page.
 
Should be samson, 1000th post.
 
For the next 18 hours, yes, and then #999 gets the opportunity, etc.
 
I get so many RoboCalls I don't even answer my cell unless Caller ID shows me it's someone I know. In the last year, Spammers began displaying "local" phone numbers - to fool us into thinking it's a neighbor or local business. But recently, I've begun receiving calls will local numbers and names.

So annoying....
 
I get so many RoboCalls I don't even answer my cell unless Caller ID shows me it's someone I know. In the last year, Spammers began displaying "local" phone numbers - to fool us into thinking it's a neighbor or local business. But recently, I've begun receiving calls will local numbers and names.

So annoying....


More a rant than a question..
 
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