1130 is Taking advantage?
I wonder what you would charge if you were (one of)the only airline(s) flying in an out of Israel right now
They can charge 3k a seat and still have people thanking them for flying.
Its totally normal for a business to “take advantage” of a consumer, since their primary goal is to make money, and people are willing to pay it. When they initially capped the prices they claimed they were doing so to not take advantage of people who were stuck (I’m sure they weren’t losing money on those flights either). Call it whatever you want, the basic reading of the change is that now they feel comfortable to do something they didn’t 2 weeks ago.
If I want to be דן לכף זכות, the logic may be that in the first 2 weeks people were actually “stuck” on both sides, and as a gesture of good will (and maybe some sense of responsibility, at least for PR purposes) they standardized the prices. At this point, those traveling are probably going for business/personal reasons, so there’s no reason they shouldn’t operate like a regular business, and charge whatever people would pay.
I don’t think they owe anyone anything, and the fact that they did this till now was above and beyond what they could’ve done. I just was trying to point out a change in the policy.
If they’d charge $3K they would only get absolutely necessary travelers, and would go with empty planes. The range they’re pricing now is on the higher end, but still something that one may push themselves for non-essential reasons as well.
For me personally it’s annoying because I’m trying to help my sister get back to Israel and was hoping they’d pay less.