@43d7c4ea
Isn't happy hour kind of the same thing? Reduce price during times low traffic.
Feels like it's more about perception than actual mechanics. Dropping price for low demand feels fair, but raising it during high demand does not.
Edit: also, as you say, hotels and airlines do this already, without any outcry.
@105cdede
The FT analysis makes the same point and has quite a bit of data on differences by sector...
@105cdede @43d7c4ea without any outcry? Have you missed the whole thing about fining families for taking holidays in term time? It's a whole national mechanism created to work against people trying to avoid the seasonal price hikes.
Arguably not enough of the outcry has been aimed at the airlines and hotels, but it has existed.
@85dc524c @105cdede @43d7c4ea
I think you're conflating two different things there. The outcry is not against the hotels, rail companies, airlines, who try to fill their flights - they are quite right to do so. This is what the post was discussing.
The outcry against the state machinery which forces families to take holidays at peak cost times is also quite justified. This is what is wrong, not the providers of services trying to juggle supply and demand.
@5aeb7c0f @85dc524c @105cdede
Not sure its an either/or proportion... it seems to me there's plenty of anger to be spread across both industry & state
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