I mean, it's all luxury as far as i'm concerned - and in the right of the provider to decide on packages. If they want to offer terrible seating for not-cheaper prices, let them - the market (consumers) should be able to decide not to use them.
This is a very different argument to me than healthcare though. In my world view, healthcare and education have widespread, socially beneficial properties. I pay my local taxes to fund a highschool that i don't have kids in, because i don't want morons in the work force next year. Likewise, i want to pay more taxes for healthy educated people in the work force, because i feel it benefits me.
This is very different than how much an airline is charging for their service. An airline is no different than a hotdog vendor to me, and they should be able to charge whatever they want for their services.
Granted, i will admit that there is a bit of a slippery slope - a good example being Comcast. I loathe Comcast's business practices because we (many of us) feel trapped by them, as we only have one choice, due to the difficult nature of laying pipes. Same goes for airlines i imagine. If all airlines started to gouge us, many people can't simply drive instead - so clearly some regulation is needed in the case of airlines that the hotdog vendor doesn't have to worry about.
This is a very different argument to me than healthcare though. In my world view, healthcare and education have widespread, socially beneficial properties. I pay my local taxes to fund a highschool that i don't have kids in, because i don't want morons in the work force next year. Likewise, i want to pay more taxes for healthy educated people in the work force, because i feel it benefits me.
This is very different than how much an airline is charging for their service. An airline is no different than a hotdog vendor to me, and they should be able to charge whatever they want for their services.
Granted, i will admit that there is a bit of a slippery slope - a good example being Comcast. I loathe Comcast's business practices because we (many of us) feel trapped by them, as we only have one choice, due to the difficult nature of laying pipes. Same goes for airlines i imagine. If all airlines started to gouge us, many people can't simply drive instead - so clearly some regulation is needed in the case of airlines that the hotdog vendor doesn't have to worry about.