Is surveillance pricing during flight booking even legal?

[Braveguy6924]

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Braveguy6924
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April 18, 2025 at 2:05 pm

For the same flight on the same day at the same time, I was being shown DOUBLE the amount that my sister in another city was being shown. Is surveillance pricing even legal? This cause me so much stress and inconvenience, can I drag the concerned parties to court for privacy violations, unfair pricing, discrimination, and causing undue stress?

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[Superstar8277]

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Superstar8277
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April 18, 2025 at 2:12 pm

>can I drag the concerned parties to court for privacy violations, unfair pricing, discrimination, and causing undue stress

You can’t. By using their platform you agreed to their ToS which covers all of this.

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[Rupeshshark986]

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Rupeshshark986
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April 18, 2025 at 2:17 pm

how are you sure that their tos covers this? without even knowing what app/website op here used?

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[Superstar8277]

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Superstar8277
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April 18, 2025 at 4:33 pm

Are you new to the internet?

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[Rupeshshark986]

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Rupeshshark986
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April 18, 2025 at 4:52 pm

Not related to what I asked, I’ll ask again

how are you sure that their tos covers this? without even knowing what app/website op here used?

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[Rupeshshark986]

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Rupeshshark986
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April 18, 2025 at 4:53 pm

you could simply just give me an answer, but besides that what i think is happening is that you think there’s only one place to book tickets

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[Wisestar2656]

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Wisestar2656
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April 20, 2025 at 5:40 am

People want to drag concerned parties to court for everything and anything these days.

Do they realise what dragging someone to court really entails? Ans is probably not.

Or they feel just threatening someone with a court case would bend them to their will, like seen in the movies.

This is the real world, with real lawyer fees, red tape, etc.

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[Minabro56]

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Minabro56
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April 18, 2025 at 3:20 pm

1. DGCA- For violations of aircraft act and rules
2. CCPA- For violations of consumer protection act
3. CCI- for abuse of dominance
4. DPDP Act- for violating data protection act

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[Desishark8254]

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Desishark8254
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April 18, 2025 at 5:36 pm

Can you elaborate what exactly happened? I would like to know.

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[Braveguy6924]

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Braveguy6924
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April 18, 2025 at 5:42 pm

for same flight (a to b) i was being charged 10k whereas when my sister searched for the same flight she was being shown 5k as the fare. we checked simultaneously.

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[Braveguy6924]

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Braveguy6924
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April 18, 2025 at 5:47 pm

i used the term “surveillance pricing” because the disparity is arising out of a combination of location tracking (my roomate was being the same 10k fare but when my friend from a different location within the city checked, he was being shown 6k fare), collecting my data to discriminate against me and cause undue stress is nuts. I am left wondering how is this even legal.

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[Aravhero991]

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Aravhero991
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April 18, 2025 at 11:04 pm

You must have searched several times from within your IP address for same dates and destination. Airlines are known to track all this information and adjust their pricing accordingly. Its more of a method of injecting a FOMO in you so you can commit to buy. Airlines all over the world do this.

You can try going through a VPN and incognito mode and you would see what others are seeing.

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