We know that airlines overbook their seats, then count on no-shows and rebookings to make the system work. This helps ensure that each flight will be as full as possible, but it also leads to situations where passengers must be paid to take a different flight. What if the airlines are doing the same thing with overhead bins and “allowing” more carry-on luggage than a plane can even hold? What if they’re overbooking those compartments in the hopes or expectation that some passengers won’t bother with a Rollaboard and will simply check their bags instead?
If that’s the case, then the aisle pandemonium can’t be chalked up to passengers’ misbehavior or to honest confusion at the gate. No, it would mean that all this hassle is a natural outcome of the airlines’ cabin-stowage arbitrage. It would indicate inconvenience by design.
Airlines are getting more and more scummy. Every flight I’ve booked in the last few years has increased in price by at least 10% from the page listing the price to the actual price when going to purchase a ticket, without any ads ons like bags. I’ve confronted some of the airlines about it, and they act like nothings wrong. Too bad the CRTC/Competition Bureau is so spineless they won’t even deal with your complaint, they just send it to the company.
We need a leftist government in power to break up the large airlines and other institutions that are throttling competition. Too big to fail should mean too big to exist.
Lord knows we won’t get it with Biden, but our alternative is worse. (Which IMO is by design).
Oh shit I swear I’ve had that happen too, for flights I was following rates closely. I open a different browser and search again, wtf the increased price is whats being advertised now??
So weird.