‘A new frontier of potential abuse’: Is it legitimate to charge someone flying to a funeral more than a leisure traveler?

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• KIKILOVE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe health company can disclose ALL data so if you have cancer company can charge you more?

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  These bastards will steal wallets and jewellery if they see someone dying on the street. Fucking ghouls.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They’ll commit every evil imaginable if the reward is profit instead of retribution.

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Back in the day, there was a bereavement discount you could get if you asked. Sure glad they put a stop to that, the shareholders would be furious!

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  • scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t think they’ve stopped that. I’m pretty sure it’s still a thing.

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When my grandmother died and I had to fly out for the funeral, American Airlines said they don’t do it. I called their AAdvantage customer service line.

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• Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They already do. Book months in advance, like you would for a vacation, is normally cheaper than booking last minute for a funeral.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ll be sure to ask my mom to die in 3 months from now so that i can get my seat on a plane. I’s supposed to be that you give the airline a copy of the death certificate and they allow you to fly for a discounted rate.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Exactly this. I needed a day return on short notice the last time I had to take a flight for a funeral, so that would be business price for tickets rather than leisure price. About 10x price difference, but there was no alternative if I was going to be there.

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• Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  "Mildly infuriating?” If people aren't actually enraged, it's because we're already drained.

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• crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sure it is!! Get them when they’re grieving is what me pa used to say! 👍

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  • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I remember him well. He would never have stolen from a dead. He would always have waited and charged the inheritors an inheritance fee (+ grieving fee).

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    • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Exactly! It’s nice to know he still has honorable friends in important places 🙏

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  • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I miss him. It’s so sad said he got shot in the stomach during an argument in a bar… 🙁

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    • crandlecan@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      … he ran a crematorium and a funeral parler… ✝️🙏

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As always: “if a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is ‘no.”

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• TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Legitimate? Yes. Shitty as all fuck? Also yes.

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• ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In a framework of nihilist moral relativism, of course! 😅😭

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• FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  !actually_infuriating@lemmy.world

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