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I love flying! but unfortunately not a lot of positive things are coming out of the airlines. With the cost of oil rising, it doesn’t seem like its going to get any better in the near future. I am immersed in the airline world almost everyday. You see things changing all the time, and most [...]
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1 year ago
My dad is a retired Navy pilot, my mom worked at American her whole life. My sister even worked for Midway for a bit.
Me, I really really really really dislike flying. I am flying out to Seattle in a few weeks and I am not really looking froward to the flight.
Anyways, I really can not comment about the state of things with the airlines ... however I've never really had a problem with them. I guess as long as I make it to my destination in one piece I am good to go.
1 year ago
1 year ago
American To Charge For First Checked Bag
American Airlines announced that they would be charging $15 for a customer's first checked bag. What new revenue streams are the other airlines implementing?
United—$25 seatbelt rental fee for passengers who didn't bring their own
Midwest—$35 to sit in the passenger compartment
JetBlue—New fee structure for wait times on runway: $150 for under 2 hours, $75 for under 4 hours, etc.
Frontier Airlines—$20 penalty if passenger is not wearing coonskin cap
Continental—$100 reduced-fare tickets for standing-room-only passengers
Southwest—Ten bucks to touch the captain
Virgin—$30 fee for booking a flight with another carrier
Delta—$50 to chip in for gas
On a more serious note, BA here in the UK has just announced it will be increasing its fuel surcharges on June 3rd to 'as they say' offset fuel charges. This is despite a 45% rise in profits to £883M ($1.76B). As stated in the comment above, the amount of people that are able to travel by air is going to reduce, which means the airlines will make even less money, so they will have to hike prices even further. The higher the prices, the less passengers they'll get. It's a vicious circle! Where will it end I wonder. At the very least, I'm sure there will be plenty more smaller airlines going out of business.
On a more cheerful , Happy Birthday!
1 year ago
1 year ago
I don't think it's about gas prices either. If it were, airlines would charge by the miles not by whatever they're feeling like charging for that day.It's kinda ridiculous that for the same flight two people sitting next to each other can pay hundreds of dollars different. If it were about gas they'd not mess with the baggage charges and all these other (insignificant) random charges and just do flat rates.