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/
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
Pretty sure a court told them to.
Usually the next step is “nuh-uh” followed by an appeal.
Someone with an expensive calculator probably worked out that it would be more expensive to fight this and just allow it.
Someone expensive with a calculator
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.
