Delta wrong to use AI ticket pricing
I see where Delta Airlines is going to increase the use of AI for ticket pricing.
Big mistake!
I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up with airlines nickeling and diming me every time I fly.
You’re charged to check in your bag, and you pay extra if you’re traveling by yourself.
You may be charged for carry-ons – and, of course, you’re paying for your seat.
Delta’s increased use of AI will mean that seats in a Delta plane may be priced differently for each individual traveler. This is pure greed.
American Airlines has said it would not go this route, and hopefully it will stay the course.
Maybe the Department of Transportation needs to check into this.
Marsha Oldinski, Englewood
Guest columnist errs in blaming Israel
Shame on Melissa Morsli for suggesting in her July 27 guest column that the 1948 displacement of Arabs – known as the Nakba – was initiated by Israel (“The horrors of Gaza demand we speak out – not turn away”).
In fact, they left to avoid the ravages of a war brought on when multiple surrounding Arab countries, unlike Israel, refused to accept the United Nations’ partition of the area and attacked Israel.
Many fleeing Arab families anticipated their sojourn to be brief; they assumed the fledgling Israeli government would be quickly overrun. That didn’t happen.
Shame on Morsli as well for repeating the accusation that Israel’s actions have “taken genocide to a whole new level.” This is unbelievable in light of the millions of innocent civilians who were intentionally targeted and murdered during the Holocaust.
What country other than Israel gives advance warnings of its attacks – putting its own forces at risk – or allows food and medical supplies into enemy territory?
And shame on Morsli for not once mentioning Hamas’ murderous instigation of, and continuing role in, the conflict in Gaza.
All good people should abhor the conditions in Gaza.
But to place responsibility on Israel alone when innocent hostages continue to be held by Hamas – and when Hamas embeds itself within hospitals and hides among the civilian population, placing civilians in harm’s way – is shameful!
Stuart Silbergleit, Sarasota
Russell, Jacques weave MAGA black magic
It’s practically guaranteed that a USA TODAY Opinion column by either Nicole Russell or Ingrid Jacques will include plenty of MAGA cheerleading.
But when their two columns ran together in the July 27 Opinion edition – each of them featuring a gargantuan lie – one has to wonder how Russell and Jacques can sleep at night.
Russell’s column – titled “Conservatives are the true feminists. We value choice.” – argued that she, news celebrity Megyn Kelly and all other conservative women “enjoy true freedom of choice.”
This is a blatant lie because conservatives were responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade, which ripped away a woman’s most important right to make decisions about her own life.
Meanwhile, Jacques’ thesis on the opposite page – “Trump is racking up GOP wins no one else could. What do Never Trumpers say now?” – touted President Donald Trump’s disbanding of the Department of Education.
But Jacques conveniently omitted mention of the harm that will come to millions of children after the Department of Education is eliminated.
This will include children who are:
Some “win”!
I’m not cancelling my subscription, however, because I can’t wait to see what kind of black magic the witches of Eastwick will use to turn Trump’s long involvement with his cruising bro, Jeffrey Epstein, into another “win.”
Marianne McGrath, Port Charlotte
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