The short is answer is because airline tickets are sold based on projected demand for a route, not guessing of cost of the flight sometime in the future. If airlines based ticket costs on your model, the passengers should also see per-flight-mile surcharges if the cost of fuel goes up between you r ticket purchase…

The purpose of these joke bills is to draw attention to themselves. Better off ignoring them, like one would do with a 3 year old having a tantrum.

Car is a good option if you have multiple people too. And you don’t have to worry about all those old movies where the kids are losing their minds from boredom in the back seat. You just guide them from their room where they are playing a video game on their Switch and have their phone playing a video of someone…

She explained in the article why flying wasn’t a practical option, and it wasn’t cost. That said, the headline certainly suggests that cost was the motivation. On that score, I completely agree with the points you make in your post.

It’s very hard to get paid for a seat with only minutes or hours until departure.

I stopped skiplagging post 9/11 when I noticed they were starting to get a lot more sensitive to the issue of who was on the plane and who wasn’t. The main concern there is of course someone checking a bag and NOT boarding the plane (thus skiplaggers who check bags through to their final destination risk an unpleasant…

Passenger opinions: one of a long list of things that airlines do not care about.

There is a certain irony to the fact that, at the moment, this story is running on Jez’s front page next to the story about women escaping a misogynistic cult.

Tom Cruise is speaking to the audience when he says “If you think, you’re dead.”

Its just super awesome you bought a ticket and wrote this rave review in support of a leader of horrible cult that does horrible things.  Good on you!

I don’t understand the praise. I understand that it’s a dumb popcorn movie, but man, it’s dumb. SPOILERS: So, some unnamed superpower has a secret weapons lab - that we can apparently just go in and bomb without starting WW3. From there on, it’s like one big macguffin after the other. The plot was also written by a 16…

One would think that after the 653rd time being unanimously lambasted for this stupid take that you’d begin to catch on?  No?  

Seriously, maybe don’t bring drugs into another country, especially one with which we are not so friendly.

I feel like I’m going crazy. Biden can’t even get popular changes passed in his own country, but Jez somehow thinks that my dude can just waltz into a country you guys are in a proxy war with and “use his powers” to bust her out of prison?

I wish Jezebel would interview, like, a single person who knows about foreign policy and prisoner exchanges to try and understand what and if the government is doing and how these things work.

Nearly $10k for a nearly 20 year old car that’s not really sought after? That seems absurd.

At $1000 I think you’re pretty close to where it shoudl be priced. I was thinking the $7500 ask was a case of a sticky “0" key.

That Rob I am, that Rob I am

You stay right where you are.  I’m calling the authorities.

It’s got some kitsch value. Nowhere near $7500, but some. It could be fun for $1k, as long as the seller replaces that Ed Gein steering wheel with something I would be willing to touch.