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Researchers peer into the black box of airline pricing and find some surprises (phys.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/science

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My read of this is mostly that airlines don't engage in price fixing and collusion - or more specifically their algorithms are designed so they don't (directly) create this outcome.

[–] surewhynotlem 2 points 11 months ago

When there are industry standard approaches creating that algorithm, the collusion is absolutely there. It's just one step removed from being obvious.