On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 1:00:34 PM UTC-4, Stephen Sprunk wrote:   
      
   > The airlines were probably already (almost?) completely booked, and the   
   > last few seats are _always_ crazy expensive.  That is standard yield   
   > management, not "gouging".   
      
   The "yield management" system may be how the prices were developed, but the   
   end result to the consumer was price gouging.   
      
   The following book, about Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, is an   
   excellent story about the 'robber baron' mentality of the past.  We can see   
   history repeating itself today.   The reforms that were passed over the years   
   to curb the robber baron    
   excesses have been repealed.   
      
   "Meet you in hell : Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bitter   
   partnership that transformed America" by Les Standiford   
      
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