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Delta Will Use AI To Cut Costs And Set A Different Ticket Price For Every Passenger—CEO Says Profits Could Rise 50% (viewfromthewing.com)
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[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 128 points 18 hours ago (23 children)

Heads up, there's a VERY UNETHICAL service out there that works around some of the VERY GOOD AND BENEFICIAL things the airlines do. You should avoid going to it because it ROBS these poor struggling airlines of VALIDLY EARNED profits.

Including a link so everyone can add it to their blocked sites lists. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU GO TO THIS MONEY SAVING SITE AND PARTICIPATE IN THEIR ANTI-CORPORATIST SCHEMES.
https://skiplagged.com/

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

Thanks for the tip. We'll see if it bares out.

Do get the sense that these third-party sites are going to become an increased necessity, as data-scrappers and trackers try to peg the price of a flight to the credit card limit of the buyer.

But... idk, I'm not seeing anything on this site that I can't find by directly querying individual airlines. (Like so many other budget airline calculators) there's no inclusion of Southwest on the list. And if the odd deal is inevitably just going to be through JetBlue anyway? Why not shop direct?

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think Southwest is moving to a hub and spoke model, but historically they haven't used it. Skip lagging seems to mostly rely on a "I want to travel to the hub, so buy a cheaper ticket to a different spoke and jump off at hub" methodology.

Which is to say, Southwest may just not be "vulnerable" to this atm.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Fine if you've got more time than money, I guess.

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