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    @Froggee – hope your wife is now safely back in Edinburgh. You shouldn’t have any issue getting paid for the Sofitel – BA generally seems more focussed on liability rather than quantum and the Sofitel is entirely within the range of reasonable.

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    Yep – she made it home at 8:20am which is pretty good going.

    And Freddo has bravely gone to holiday club so I am guessing it will be blackcurrant picking and jam making for Granny Froggee’s birthday as weirdly that is her favourite.

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    You misunderstood. What they mean is that the price they offer to YOU will be different to the price they offer to somebody else. Meaning, if you and somebody else look at the same flight at the same time, there could be a variation in the proces shown.

    No, I get it. Apple users will get charged more than Android users etc. Geo location will play a bigger part, so if you allow location services you’ll be charged higher if you book from somewhere in expensive London than a downtrodden part of Yorkshire.

    It’s just micro-segmentation because the back end server will be able to juggle more variables and provide a price based on 100 variables rather than a couple.

    You misunderstood. What they mean is that the price they offer to YOU will be different to the price they offer to somebody else. Meaning, if you and somebody else look at the same flight at the same time, there could be a variation in the proces shown.

    No, I get it. Apple users will get charged more than Android users etc. Geo location will play a bigger part, so if you allow location services you’ll be charged higher if you book from somewhere in expensive London than a downtrodden part of Yorkshire.

    It’s just micro-segmentation because the back end server will be able to juggle more variables and provide a price based on 100 variables rather than a couple.

    The EU is already hot on this with the plans for a Digital Fairness Act, alongside looking at the possibilities under the AI Act and the now long in the tooth GDPR

    That is good to know. It will be interesting to see if someone does an analysis of prices Delta shows to its potential customers, and where there are any demographic variations (potentially unintentional).

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    Can egates at European airports be used (where allowed) by families with small kids? Or do they only allow families with children above 10 years like UK?

    If you consider the height of the camera apparatus on the egate I’d be very surprised if a small child could be captured by it, let alone put their passport in the correct way round. There’s a high percentage of adults that can’t manage that simple task either 🙂

    lol yes! Or if they manage the passport bit they can’t look at the camera for long enough.

    But the serious answer is that having to see an officer is a child trafficking prevention measure.

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