Gadling

Is this the first time flying for this bonehead? I don't think I've EVER been on a flight in which two people not flying together have paid the same price. There are so many variables that go into airline ticket pricing and you're never going to find pricing consistency from one seat to the next.

What people really have forgotten is that the airline is taking you from one place to another place REALLY FAR AWAY in only a matter of hours for only a few hundred dollars...and often less than that....trips that used to take our ancestors MONTHS by horse and buggy back in the old days.

Also, before deregulation, ticket prices 40 years ago were MUCH more expensive than they are today. Wake up and smell the coffee dude....and don't take it out on the person at the counter...they're only a pawn in the corporate game.

The word 'angry' has many conotations of use and meaning. Reading the exchange & circumstances between the customer and the ticket attendant I see it (angry) as more like 'upset'. Angry does not mean that a person will be disruptive or combative, it usually means the person is upset and ticked off about the incident - and will do nothing beyond being 'angry' inside. I believe the airlines have gone too far in this case. It's much like the time (years ago in the news) when two girls were arrested because they were overheard by another passenger saying the word 'bomb'. They were talking about a movie one of them saw and she told her friend, "It was a bomb!", meaning it was a great movie. While it is understandable for the airline to be concerned and have security investigate, it was unreasonable to arrest them and ban them from future flights all because of one word in their many words of their conversation was taken out of context.

Wait with the anger until your taxbucks will be used to bail out them suckers.