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Pluralistic: The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague (07 Jun 2024)


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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on June 7, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags ancillary revenue, aviation, cfpb, cost of living crisis, drip pricing, Hassan Ali Kanu, IdeaWorksCompany, inflation, jay sorenson, junk fees, luke goldstein, partitioned pricing, rip offs, rohit chopra, shrouded attributes, trustbusting3 Comments on Pluralistic: The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague (07 Jun 2024)

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