One Example of Price Discrimination Occurs in the Airline Industry

question 43

Essay

One example of price discrimination occurs in the airline industry as airlines typically set a high price for business people and a low price for vacationers. Use this example to demonstrate and graphically illustrate the rationale of airlines' price-discrimination pricing strategy.

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Definitions:

Programmed Decisions

Automatic responses to routine and recurring situations.

Recurring Situations

Situations or events that happen repeatedly over time, often showing a pattern or cycle.

Automatic Responses

Reactions that occur with little to no conscious thought, often resulting from learned behaviors or innate instincts.

Programmed

Refers to something that is set up or prepared in advance according to a plan, often used in the context of computer programming or automated processes.