The poor don't save a buck when they next need to fly and are exposed to excess costs because of not being able to buy the bucket price seat. The mechanistic way this usually exposes is "only six seats at this price" and they went milliseconds after release.
You truly believe you're right and frustratingly I truly believe you're wrong AND I'm lazy and don't want to prove it or convince you. It's just what I think. Your examples are good. There are equally good rebuttals you could steelman for yourself if you wanted to.
>The poor don't save a buck when they next need to fly and are exposed to excess costs because of not being able to buy the bucket price seat. The mechanistic way this usually exposes is "only six seats at this price" and they went milliseconds after release.
Taking this at face value, it means the airline severely underpriced their fares, because it was snapped up very quickly, which indicates there were people willing to pay more that didn't have the chance. This definitely has implications for equity (eg. if you're not working a desk job you might not be able to spam refresh to snap up those airfares), but I'm not too concerned about it because airlines are incentivized to fix the problem.
More importantly I don't think this problem even exists. Nowadays if you try to book a ticket, you'll be presented with a menu of options, with different fare restrictions. I don't think I've ever saw a situation where a discounted fare was only available for basic economy, for instance. You could always pay more or less for the different tiers within economy.
You truly believe you're right and frustratingly I truly believe you're wrong AND I'm lazy and don't want to prove it or convince you. It's just what I think. Your examples are good. There are equally good rebuttals you could steelman for yourself if you wanted to.