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[-] TheRaven@lemmy.ca 61 points 6 months ago

Or that they can buy the plane ticket first, then apply for the grievance discount later…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/02/18/air-canada-airline-chatbot-ruling/

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

An Air Canada spokesperson said in a statement to The Washington Post that the airline will comply with the tribunal’s decision.

The most shocking part

[-] Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure a court told them to.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Usually the next step is "nuh-uh" followed by an appeal.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 6 months ago

Someone with an expensive calculator probably worked out that it would be more expensive to fight this and just allow it.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Someone expensive with a calculator

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

The rare sort of Engineer who took classes in Finance and Statistical Analytics who can work out a past-present-future cash flow diagram on a whiteboard in like 5min because he never uses the compound interest factor tables and instead memorized the formulas.

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