Make sure to tip!
Why are adults and children’s prices the same. Just charge per seat at that point.
Could be reporting requirements or KYC stuff. It might differentiate how much information to gather on the passenger or put restrictions on where they can sit, like exit rows.
If it’s an airline, it’s likely to allow them to more accurately predict passenger weight. Planes have weight ratings, and need to be sure their loads are distributed appropriately, (like not having everyone in the very back of the plane). Differentiating the tickets will help them flag potential weight problems before boarding even begins.
Or all of the above. I doubt it’s just for a single use.
They just block two different options in the software so that they could differentiate.
Large families still having the possibilty to flight from to time even if they are not so rich?
Fuck! Is ticketmaster selling plane tickets now??
Yes, are you interested?
I was shopping around tickets and this came up when using the Air Canada website.
Did the same itinerary on Google flights and none of it came up.
Yeah Google flights only shows the base ticket price and doesn’t factor in taxes and fees which easily add an extra 15% or so on most flights. For example, I booked a trip just yesterday where the base price of the tickets was about $900 (and that’s the price that Google Flights showed) but the required taxes and fees pushed it up to $1100
Let me guess: this is intentionally done to show up at the top of flights price low -> lists.
Maybe, or maybe it’s to curb the law that force a refund in certain cases. You want a refund? It’s 64$.
They do that with shipping items on ebay all the time. cheap item price 100+ shipping
Yeah. Anyone using eBay long enough knows to prioritize listings with free shipping over others.
The same is true with all any other services, the more they break it out the more likely you’ll be scammed.
It’s not for the consumer’s benefit. They are structuring the transaction to give themselves levers to pull.
it’s funny when they choose $100 shipping on an object that actually does cost $50 to ship, but are $80 cheaper than any other option and have the audacity to complain when I want it shipped to me in Alaska.
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This is just silly. I recently saw Las Vegas hotels doing something similar though to a much lesser extent where it’s called “resort fees”. Should be illegal but it doesn’t affect me since I’m not traveling to the US
Those “resort fees” were part of Biden’s FTC’s efforts to crack down on junk fees. Trump is now undoing that work. https://www.investopedia.com/trump-has-undone-biden-s-war-on-junk-fees-11772720
I was recently building a web portal that could accept payments. I was looking into ways to avoid the extra credit card fees we’d have to pay to accept them. I was told I can’t charge an additional “credit card fee” because a lot of states outlawed them, but was told I could just relabel that fee as a “convenience fee” and it would be completely legal.
Welcome to America. Fuck you.
It’s not just Vegas. It’s also very popular in short-term rentals (like AirBnB) and other gig enterprises.
More like “extort fees”
For hotels, I’m wondering if this is a trick to meet a government rate.
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Resort fees are required by legislation, it’s basically a tax on tourists.I was wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resort_fee
You’ve got the right idea for the European system though. “Tourist tax”. It’s usually low enough that it’s not a big deal, but I was shocked when I checked in at a hotel in Greece and the receptionist wanted 5€/night from me.
I booked a hotel in New Orleans with points, when I got there they charged me $20 per night. Pretty sure it was bullshit because I’ve never had that anywhere else when paying with points.
The hotels receipts I’ve seen (I worked approving travel expenses, so I’ve seen a lot) they differentiate between specific locally mandated fees and their own fees (which is probably part of the legislation that compels them).
Yeah this is what I’ve seen, especially in big destination cities like Chicago and New York City where they’ll have extra taxes for the city and sometimes also for the extremely desirable part of the city the hotel happens to be in. I think even I had one that had federal, state, county, city and neighborhood taxes, each as its own line item, adding about $40/night to the cost all said and done
Then why do they vary by hotel?
Because I was wrong, edited.
I appreciate you.
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Air Canada.
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Don’t use Air Bus?
Just hitch a ride on a Boeing. They’ll drop you off along the way sometimes.
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What are their surcharges?
In theory, the resort fees are intended to help pay for upkeep of “perks” like the pool, gym, entertainment venues, etc., whereas your room fee is paying staff and keeping your room clean.
They’re for convenience!
Bullshit, mostly.
A meal? A succulent, chinese meal?
I had a hotel charge me for “services.” Like bitch that’s in the price of the room!
That’s like renting a flat and being charged extra for doors.
If I get charged for “services” in quotes like that, I’d better collapse breathless afterwards.
Enjoying a succulent meal.
A succulent Chinese meal.
This is democracy manifest.
Being alive…
charging you for other charges.
OK. May we see the itemized list?
On the invoice it doesn’t seem so. Just 520$ per person. That link on the pic is just text.
So literally no itemization, just $520.
OK, that is indeed bullshit.
I’m guessing it’s the “peak dates” thing. They have a base price aka. minimum price when planes are mostly empty and then put on a surcharge for when demand is high, instead of altering the base price.
That makes sense, it just feels greasy
volatile, unpredictable or fluctuating operating costs and fees
Socialize the Costs and Privatize the Profits
edit: What confuses me is how these things can be “volatile” and “fluctuating” before they bought the ticket?
On the invoice it doesn’t seem so. Just 520$ per person. I’ll try.
Jesus, it is like the fucking plaque with you.
Like the plaque on your teeth?
Or did you mean plague, you (to borrow a page from your own playbook), fucking idiot?
Neither of which is an actual turn of phrase, btw. The phrase you wanted is (ironically, because of the plaque) “it’s like pulling teeth with you.” If you’re going to be a smug dick at least be correct so you don’t embarrass yourself any more than you already do by simply being a smug dick.
Fuck, Dean, lately all you seem to do on lemmy is gripe and insultingly correct people while getting it wrong yourself. Hope you feel better soon.
You’re a troll-y little thing, ain’t ya. It’s also super cool to be kind for no reason, you should try it!
Wow what a BOZO you are…
I recently did a return trip from Dublin to Boston and back. Each ticket was 1 Euro; rhe rest was airport taxes, government levies, etc.
In the past, pre-covid, 1 Euro tickets were not unusual. Part of the reason why Ryanair became so dominant was that they contracted with secondary airports that had much lower fees, so the final price was below what the competitors could offer.
Yes, Ryanair. But even they could itemize what you had to pay extra for. OP got this instead:
What confuses me is how these things can be “volatile” and “fluctuating” before they bought the ticket?
edit: somebody made the Ryanair experience into an operetta song! https://youtu.be/ZAg0lUYHHFc
Thank you for the Fascinating Aida link. Spent the afternoon discovering their great back catalog.
How this is 15y old and I’ve never seen?!
Mildly infuriating
- misplacement of
when screenshot shows correct placement - fax of a fax
Infuriating
- image of pure text lacking accessibility
- misplacement of
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Wow, you’re a pleasant person. Just a big bowl of rainbows and sunshine.
You didn’t have to write this comment but you did and you look stupid. All you had to do was nothing. Even a monkey can do that.
What exactly is the point of this comment?
It’s such a strange thing to get hostile about. Ironically, it low-key bugs me that we put the dollar sign before the number it’s indicating. “$64” is read as “sixty-four dollars,” not “dollars sixty-four.” So why write it like that? (Not rhetorical, I really want to know. I tried looking up this question to find out the answer, but haven’t found anything conclusive.) Putting the currency symbol behind the number makes more sense, like how some countries write the Euro. (Which also explains why some people might not intuitively place the dollar sign before the number - it’s their native convention and it follows clear logic.)
So maybe the point was ignorance or fear of the foreign? Or a misguided attempt at English language purity? Or they’re a former Redditor who hasn’t quite shaken off the Reddit “pointless, hostile hot-take” mentality?
Moreover, the OP is a lemmy.ca account, and may very well be French Canadian. And guess what, the currency sign is trailing in French.
top 10 ragebait
Some people are just unpleasant.
They really just are, too. I went to their page to block them, and like half their comments are just highly-downvoted, sometimes confidently-incorrect bitching.
Who hurt you wtf. Are you okay?
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