These fees were introduced in 2008 as a way to offset the rising cost of fuel. It’s been a cash cow for the airlines who collected $US3.4 billion in fees last year, up 24% since 2009. Delta Airlines, which recently charged an Army unit $US2800 in bag checking fees, was the leader and racked up an impressive $US952 million. [AP]
Daniel
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 4:14 PMAnd this is technology/gadget related how? I’ll read news.com.au for pointless commentary if that’s what I wanted.
Paul
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:01 PM+1 to Daniel. What’s the deal here Gizmodo?
Seamus Byrne
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:08 PMWe do cover a lot of air travel stories. Because flying through the air is AMAZING AND FUTURISTIC!
Wouldn’t call this Kelly’s most cutting edge Giz story. But then, it’s easy enough to skip over stories that don’t float your boat.
Nort
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:21 PMI think Daniel and Paul have sand in their cranky pants.
Ritik
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 5:34 PMHaving recently travelled quite extensively in the us, I have a bit of experience regarding domestic air travel in the us, although no such info for australian airlines. I found southwest airlines to be quite reasonably priced online, and they allow u to checkin 2 bags for free. I’d recommend them in that regard
carly
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 11:40 PMSoon you will be paying to walk to the bathrooms on the planes. Found a great site to complain about this stuff at airlineslodgingetc.com
Nicholas Gruen
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 12:55 AMSo show me the monopoly profits the airlines are making . . . pahhleese what a lame story
typedmillepede
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 11:27 AMamen to that. if the airlines were all uber profitable it’s worth whinging about. they are not, in fact they make a loss more often than not… quit your whinging and be glad that you can get from sydney to melbourne for 30 bucks.