The algorithm that increases airline ticket prices as it detects greater interest in customers for a specific route appears to be an unbeatable opponent. This is also why ENAC, the Italian Civil Aviation Authority, has called for a confrontation with the government, denouncing the risk of unfair business practices on the part of companies and proposing the creation of a supervisory authority. In the meantime, it would be better to resign oneself to not traveling or choose another period. If from a Milanese airport one wants to travel to Sicily, like Palermo, to spend the days from August 14 to 18, the low-cost airlines ask for 648.68 euros between round trip with "basic" fare, the cheapest one. A few minutes after checking prices from the laptop, the same operation done with another device, for example an iPhone, states a different price: 710.28 euros. ITA offers a Milan-Palermo from August 14 to 17. Four people spend 1,048 euros if booking from a laptop, but it becomes 1,119 euros if using an iPhone. Some results are paradoxical: a flight from Naples to Olbia can touch 1,000 euros in August. Almost twice as much as a flight from Rome to New York, which, again for the month of August, can be found around 600 euros. The Civil Aviation Authority has lashed out at the system that causes prices to skyrocket, disbelieving the companies' version of the situation, which blames the price hikes on booming demand and fuel stocks purchased a year ago, with the price of crude oil skyrocketing. Now (perhaps) the government will intervene.
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