[Dalewyn]

>legitimate reasons to skiplag? i.e they cannot afford the full fare,

Air travel is a privilege, not a right. If you can't afford a ticket, don't fucking buy it.

>they cannot make the following flight for other reasons?

Sure, but that's not skiplagging.

>Being on a megacorps side against consumers is strange behaviour.

I am siding with common decency. If you lie in the course of business just to save some pretty pennies, costing everyone else in the process, you are a scumbag and you deserve whatever comes your way.

If skiplagging becomes more common, airlines will ultimately raise prices for everyone to make up for the inefficiency and everyone loses. Screw that noise.

[smashah]

> Air travel is a privilege, not a right. If you can't afford a ticket, don't fucking buy it.

They did buy the ticket. Legally.

> Sure, but that's not skiplagging.

That literally is the same as skiplagging. Skiplagging is only determined on intentions, not actions as it is the same action.

> If skiplagging becomes more common, airlines will ultimately raise prices for everyone to make up for the inefficiency and everyone loses. Screw that noise.

You should be more mad about people flying for cheap with credit card points, that literally DOES raise prices for everyone. But I'm sure you do that all the time so it magically makes it okay.

[Dalewyn]

>They did buy the ticket. Legally.

Yes, that ticket is a binding contract for both sides.

If you sign a contract fully aware you don't intend to honor it, you are an asshole.

>Skiplagging is only determined on intentions,

...Yes?

I'm not sure if you're being daft. It is skiplagging to buy something with the intent to not honor the deal, it is not skiplagging if you cannot honor the deal due to factors outside your control.

>You should be more mad about people flying for cheap with credit card points, that literally DOES raise prices for everyone.

The airlines receive compensation from the banks so it's a non-issue.

[smashah]

> I'm not sure if you're being daft

Not surprised, you wouldn't be able to recognize daft if it were staring at you through the mirror.

> The airlines receive compensation from the banks so it's a non-issue.

Yeah bro the banks give out credit card points out of the kindness of their hearts, it's not like they charge merchants fees to make up for it which then get paid for by everyone in society because some cheap bozos think they're mining free amex points sitting in business class having not actually paid for it.

[CogitoCogito]

> If skiplagging becomes more common, airlines will ultimately raise prices for everyone to make up for the inefficiency and everyone loses. Screw that noise.

How would everyone lose? Bans against skiplagging allow airlines to divorce their ticket prices from the costs of the underlying service. If airlines were say not allowed to ban skiplagging, they would be forced to price their tickets more in line with the underlying costs (on competitive routes anyway) so we should expect some routes' ticket costs to decrease.