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Originally Posted by valo403
I think it's also a product of a different era. Flights were rarely packed full like they are now so AA probably felt like they weren't really giving anything away besides a seat that would have been empty anyways. Airlines in particular seemed to be run in an incredibly bizarre fashion until they were forced to attempt to be real businesses over the last few years.
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Yah, I can see them offering this at a time when they had excess capacity. The seat would have been empty anyways, so might as well try to sell it.
What they really screwed up on was lacking foresight in the cancelation issue. They should have put in the stipulation that any cancelled flight would mean the person has to pay the full price of the cancelled ticket.