alt Hacker News>If we want to stop fare practices we do not agree with then mandating specific bundling in luggage, legroom, food and credit/rebook is available as a regulation.
Let's take the one of the items as an example: I rarely rebook, so I'm presumably benefiting from this price discrimination. Why should I support that it be forcibly bundled? I might be sympathetic to having some sort of baseline fare for advertising purposes, so it's not a race to the bottom to get the lowest sticker price, but I can't see how it's justified to limit consumer choice by disallowing the sale of restricted fares.
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Because your ticket that includes it will be the same price as the ticket you're getting now that excludes it. That was broadly the point of the article— the lowest tier fares didn't get cheaper, you just had to pay more to get what you had before.
> Why should I support that it be forcibly bundled?
we don't all need to benefit equally from every regulation all the time for that regulation to be a net positive for society.
I'm not saying you're wrong but this is also much the same argument as "why do I pay more tax when I am not using public health" or other community wide benefits. Philosophically you either believe in a price which benefits the community at large, or you want the lowest price outcome for yourself and others to be exposed to their costs.