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Customers prefer constant prices. Aside from the perceived unfairness, there are, again, transaction costs. Any time spent by customers trying to figure out how to get the lowest price is still a loss.
Airlines get away with it because airline seats are in limited supply, making it a seller's market. The buyers have to take whatever the airlines give them. There's certainly a fair degree of public outcry about it; the fact that there isn't more is because of a combination of people not understanding it, the fact that most people only buy airline tickets occasionally, and the fact that there's nothing the public can do about it.
That's a very... incomplete prior. Customers also prefer cheap prices. Customers prefer (a lot!) the feeling that they got a deal and bought something on sale.
I also don't see what's special about airlines. Pretty much every business would love to price discriminate. Many do through a variety of methods. For example, supermarket coupons are a classic form of price discrimination.