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What airline fees are coming next?

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It used to be death and taxes were the only certainties in life, but in recent years more and higher airline fees have become a lock as well. (travel.usatoday.com) עוד...

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preacher1
preacher1 3
well, it ain't been that long ago that pay toilets were everywhere. Now they are incorporated in those various aiport fees that make up a ticket price. As many have said below. You get what you pay for so get used to it. Everything costs money and a company cannot give away stuff and stay in business. That's called going broke.
rad2
Roger Deeringer 4
Whine - Whine - Whine
The traveling public begs for lower airfares, point out that there are many items on the all services that the inclusive ticket price covers. "I just want a seat to go from A to B". OK here is the fare for just the seat. Oh you have a 60 pound bag to check? Oh, you want dinner? Oh, you want to carry on that 40 pound travel bag? Oh, you want a lap baby space?

Come on folks - you get what you pay for. Don't want checked baggage fees, don't pack a checked bag!!! Don't want assigned seating, then don't ask to be seated in 12A exit row. With the feed schedule, pick and chose what you are willing to pay for.

OR we could go back to the full service ticket and get to bitch about the rubber chicken again. Pay extra to the food box and get rubber chicken - I guess you can take that up with the catering company.

I guess the media needs to make stories to sell their "paper". Creating controversy is a good way to do this.

Casual travelers want bus ticket prices and Clipper services. Like I wrote above - Ya get what Ya pay for.
zcolescott
Zachary Colescott 3
I too am tired of people whining when they can't get everything for free. Stuff costs money people...you REALLY want it? Be willing to pay for it. If not, stop your complaining. Those of us who are seasoned travelers have figured out how to deal with it already...it's called upgrading.
AccessAir
AccessAir 0
I would rather deal with this---> OR we could go back to the full service ticket and get to bitch about the rubber chicken again. Pay extra to the food box and get rubber chicken - I guess you can take that up with the catering company.
Than have to be fleeced for buying things that the airline tickets is already supposed to pay for....
The travelling public has just been brainwashed into an A LA Carte mind set...

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blake1023
blake1023 1
A couple things....
1. If you were a CEO of an airline that operated 5,000 plus flights everyday worldwide. 80,000 plus employees worldwide, deal with labor unions on a daily bases, and handle an over reaching FAA. You'd want more than $20k a year!!!

2. If the CEO tood home NOTHING. Airlines would still be in bankrupty.

All these occupy wall street types can go pound sand!
AccessAir
AccessAir 1
The problem is that the CEO doesnt deal with the FAA or the technical aspects of the operations, thats what his company departmernts are for...Most CEOs wouldnt know FAA Regs of they came and bit them on the butts....And thats why some CEOs get bit in the butts..
CEOs certainly make more money than they should....Pilots and Flight Attendants are a different story. Being in command of a multi million dollar piece of equipmet calls for a high salary.
As for the rest of the airline employees like Maintenance, Ground handling, Station agents, etc....Watch how fast an airline shuts down if Baggage Handlers decide to do a work stoppage...
I no Wall Street Occupy idiot, but I do believe that employees that work hard and are part of a big company such as an airline should be paid what they are worth rather than close to the minimum wage...Without all the little guys, the big guys are without a job....
blake1023
blake1023 1
I think everyone should get paid more. I am a pilot, I make crap for what i do.
6at1
Clive Peterson 1
thats total b/s
blake1023
blake1023 3
So you're telling me you would run American Airlines a $22.2 Billion in reveues, and make $25k per year....?? Thats BS and your know it! Also, your telling me the CEOs $5.3 million compensation, is going to pervent a $22.2 Billion company from filing bankruptcy. You want to know the real crooks. Look at your pals in the Teamsters Union. Jimmy Hoffa has been ripping off workers for decades, and doesnt pay a dine in taxes!!! Unions are tax exempt. Here we have airline employees making nothing, but a tax cheat like Jimmy Hoffa has to garnish workers wages on the ""promise" they will "fight" for workers rights.
AccessAir
AccessAir 3
Blake: "elling me the CEOs $5.3 million compensation, is going to pervent a $22.2 Billion company from filing bankruptcy."
It certainly might help some....
Agreed: "You want to know the real crooks. Look at your pals in the Teamsters Union."
blake1023
blake1023 0
Unions can help out some too! and stop garinshing my wages!
sparkie624
sparkie624 1
When I worked at Mtc Ctrl at another airline, we joked about different fees when the fee business just started. There was a Recline Seat Fee, Window Shade Fee if you wanted it open, another one if you wanted it closed. The list goes on... There is no shortage of ideas for the Airlines...
tobyz1
Toby Zidle 1
The next fee? How about 'online flight status check' fee? (Except for FA, of course.)
tobyz1
Toby Zidle 1
"If Airlines Sold Paint" -- quite appropriate to this topic.
tobyz1
Toby Zidle 1
"If Airlines Sold Paint" -- quite appropriate to this topic.

http://www.amanwalksintoanoffice.com/2006/09/if_airlines_sold_paint.html
6at1
Clive Peterson -2
I dont think it whine! OK I must travel for 2 weeks or longer at a time, think I can put that in a carry on? 3 seats in the same section on the same row, One costs more?? Want to explain that one using your whine method?

Even when the wife and I travel for 2 or more weeks I do One checked bag for both of use under 50 pounds! Yet the airline wants 25 bucks? That is bullshit.

I want certain seats not because of thing you whine about whiner, I select them for multi reasons none you mention.

I dont use anything on a plane, I bring my own food, etc. I sit there in the seat until exit time! It is just a nickle or up sale things they are doing. Crooks.

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