Travel Information:Airline fees: Please don’t lie, don’t be moronic
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As much as you may hate ancillary fees on airlines, they’re clearly making a difference. The nickel-and-diming of the average passenger was good for a whopping .8 billion last year … up 42 percent from 2008. Airlines are making serious cash on inconvenient fees, which means they aren’t going away. The coming travel market recovery (look for it in 2011) will put more asses in seats and, of course, more bucks in the airline industry till. What was .8 billion last year only has the potential to become much, much larger.
And that could be the problem.
It might not be easy to sympathize with the airlines, companies with well-entrenched reputations for being among the most poorly run enterprises since the dawn of capitalism. But, at least when they were on the ropes (for real this time … right?), we could stomach that the ancillary fees were a survival mechanism. When revenue per available seat-mile starts to come back, passengers will become increasingly offended by the price tags popped on blankets and baggage and everything in between.
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