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A Boring Dystopia
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Economy tickets aren't priced at marginal cost. The first available economy seats are priced at a base rate. As the plane fills up, economy seat prices increase. Then the original economy passengers are bombarded with emails and texts asking them to upgrade to premium, when higher class tickets go unsold.
There's also a secondary market for tickets exploited by resellers (Expedia, etc) that buy up in advance and try to leverage corporate discounts for a profit.
But all of this ultimately making flying more confusing, more difficult, and less flexible (it's basically impossible to cancel a ticket now), due to all the middle men playing hot potato with unsold seats.
The "optional play" for flying is to just go to the airport and gamble on standby tickets, which require you to have far more free time than free cash. If you need to keep a schedule, this is a horrible model.