Some sad news from Reuters this afternoon (for the airlines at least).
U.S. based airlines may have finally run out of new fees for their passengers.
Indeed, after years of moving things that used to be free into a fee based category, there simply isn’t anything left they can charge us for.
Some airlines, have increased their revenue by over $2 Billion a year, just off things like meals, drinks and baggage charges.
These are all things that used to be included for free with your ticket, but now add as much as 25% to the price of your trip.
Of course, when an airline claims it has run out of ways to screw us, I suspect they are just getting warmed up for the really nasty charges they are preparing. There are plenty of ways they can still make a few bucks off us, until the point where your ticket is nothing more than a piece of paper that entitles you to getting to your destination “sooner or later”.
I’ve written about some of the insane ways airlines come up with “exciting” new products, and quite frankly, I don’t think their creativity will end until the last accountant has left the building.
(Via: RickSeaney.com)