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		thirtyseven on Sept 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airlines make more money from mileage programs tha... It's price discrimination. Some airline users are not price sensitive (the wealthy, corporate travelers with expense accounts) and they don't care about getting maximum value for their dollar. Economy fliers do.

sokoloff on Sept 21, 2023 [–]

It's also a pretty good subsidy to economy fliers.

thirtyseven on Sept 22, 2023 | [–]

Assuming they don't intentionally make economy worse to increase the perceived value of first class.

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