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Cheap airline tickets wouldn't exist without discriminatory prices, your ticket for $50 bought eight weeks in advance is subsidised by the business traveller who paid $400 the day before travel.

Without the discriminatory pricing the flight may not exist for either traveller. With it both travellers are satisfied, you because you get a cheap holiday, the business traveller because he gets to close a big deal.



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