Post #1966341
2026-04-24 05:12 UTC
As airlines are starting to mass cancel "unprofitable flights" I wonder if I'll be a victim of that and my early booking back in March for my June trip will turn out to be useless. I understand the moral and legal justification for force majeure in general, but the concept of specifically cancelling _unprofitable_ flights feels predatory.
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@pervognsen@mastodon.social 2026-04-24 05:21
I guess in the case of airlines they don't even need to appeal to force majeure because they already cancel underbooked and otherwise unprofitable flights all the time, so this is an application of existing practices on a larger scale.
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@nothings@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-24 16:53
@pervognsen Unfortunately, we live in a world where the only way to get companies to support unprofitable routes is with government subsidies/contracts. We see that in the USA with trains (Amtrak) and mail-to-everyone-no-matter-how-rural (e.g. carriers using USPS as last-mile delivery).