Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’
![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7c668ec0-a3ad-455f-b736-1f5f13808b09.png)
![](https://fry.gs/pictrs/image/c6832070-8625-4688-b9e5-5d519541e092.png)
![Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d0066611-1954-4563-a1e4-2dea334206c4.jpeg?format=jpg&thumbnail=256)
news.yahoo.com
Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’::Ultimately, it’s incumbent on lawmakers to take steps to ensure this practice is discouraged.
You are viewing a single comment
Hahaha, but skiplagging is bad!!!! Fucking hypocrisy of an industry.
Don’t you worry, I’m sure the free market competition will sort it out any minute now…
/s
But wouldn't a more free market in this case let them do more direct flights to Melbourne without requiring the extra leg?
The extra leg is only added to get around a specific kind of regulation of the market (limiting how many flights they can do with Melbourne as a destination), it wouldn't exist otherwise.
If Melbourne had unlimited capacity for flights, yes. But that's where the free market stuff tends to fail in reality, it works if you assume a market without natural limits, but not otherwise.
But a free market solution would be the airport increasing its prices until the demand at those prices matches how much capacity they have (and probably a push to add more capacity, or a build a new airport nearby, etc.)
The problem from Australia's point of view is probably that this could cause their own airlines to be out-competed by foreign ones, or it could reduce the number of destinations where flights are viable, etc.
There are slot limits that regulate that. This is just a policy to benefit domestic airlines while encouraging flights to airports other than Sydney and Melbourne.