“Passengers still have to go searching for airfares with a calculator in one hand, and that’s how the airlines like it.” — Chrisopher Elliot of consumer travel site Elliot.org. The Trump administration just helped kill some price tags.  That’s bad for consumers, but good for huge, monopolistic airlines. The main thesis behind Gotcha Capitalism is…

Fair Contracts and Ralph Nader made a Freedom of Information Act Request to find out how much money the major airlines keep from those unused, nonrefundable tickets people don’t or can’t or forget to use within the one-year expiration limit set by the airlines in their fine print contracts of carriage terms. It turns out…

MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan reports on Nader’s efforts to discover airline revenues from unused tickets. http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/10/10366774-airlines-secretly-cash-in-on-unused-tickets

Have you ever not used a non refundable airline ticket and then either forgot to use it within a year or were reluctant to pay a $100-$150 change fee to be able to use it? Ralph Nader asks the CEOs of major airlines to reveal the data of how much they have pocketed from these…

The New York Times reports this fair contract win by Ralph Nader to object to the fine print in airlines refunds.  Nader recommends small claims courts for consumers.  See:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/your-money/ralph-nader-and-the-airline-refund-the-haggler.html