[emergentcypher]

Really? This is capitalism and a free market economy. They sold the tickets, it's their own damn problem. If they don't like it, they should fix their ticketing systems.

If anybody needs to be shamed, it's the airlines themselves for arbitrary price discrimination.

[TeMPOraL]

The article is about ethics. Capitalism is orthogonal to ethics. There are things that are allowed under law and market economy that are unethical, or just plain douchy.