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[email protected] · April 2nd 12, 08:23 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:18:03 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:08:42 on Fri, 30 Mar
2012, d remarked:
The real blackmail is in the holiday companies and airlines stiffing people
with exhorbitant fares during school holidays. There's no reason for them to
do it , they just do it because they can. Its naked profiteering.

They price things according to supply and demand. It's difficult to
criticise that in a capitalist economy.

Except they put the prices up in the expectation of demand long before
the season, not actual demand during it.

What?? The demand for holidays occurs when people book them, not when
they take them.

If that were the case you'd find the prices slowly increasing as time went
by and more people booked. They don't. They start high and remain there. Its
only when they have surplus left over and its close to end of season that
the bargains start appearing.

B2003