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But it's hardly a surprising move. All the airlines are struggling under soaring fuel costs (United alone says it will pay an extra $3.5 billion for gas this year) and looking for other places to make up the revenue so they won't have to raise fares any higher...
8. United A similar package: $15 to $25 for checked-bag fees; $150 to make flight changes. Plus an extra wrinkle: if you get to the airport early and want a confirmed seat on an earlier flight, United will charge you $75 - better than the $150 change fee, but higher...
In the face of runaway fuel costs, the airlines are desperate to increase revenue without raising fares. They don't want to shrink demand with higher list prices, nor do they want to be the high fare when consumers scan travel websites for deals, nor break through certain price levels...
That's different from most consumer companies, which try simplify the purchasing process and make the value proposition easier to understand. The airlines have chosen to complicate the purchase of their product - the notion being that you pay for only what you use - and in the process, they hope to...
The airlines' unwillingness to offset the entire cost of rising fuel prices directly is part of air travel's 40-year, post-deregulation descent into denial. Long after the friendly skies became a lot less special, long after multiple bankruptcies and the demise of TWA and Pan Am, the airlines...