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...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. Free meals have largely become a relic of flying's more glamorous past; most of the airlines now charge for checked luggage; and many of them have, more quietly, raised the fees they charge for making a change to your nonrefundable ticket. USAirways, which just last Friday became the first airline to start...
...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. So they have added a menu of charges, which vary by airline. The only constant is passenger frustration. First it was meals, then baggage, then soft drinks and bottled water, and finally, JetBlue's blanket policy...
...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 continued to delude themselves, and us, with the idea that flying is glamorous...
...police in what many say is the largest mass agitation in the state since the 1990s, when the insurgency was raging. This week, at least three protestors have been killed and scores injured. On Tuesday, Hindu protesters blocked traffic on the main highway, leaving the Valley short of food, fuel and medical supplies, and leaving Kashmiri fruit-growers seeing their produce rotting instead of heading for markets in the rest of India...
...even drove his minivan, family included, all the way from Illinois, arriving at 3 a.m., so he could get his turn to lambaste the Democrats for not allowing a vote on a bill to expand offshore drilling. To drive their point home, members waved empty gas cans, charts of fuel prices and blown-up photos of Speaker Nancy Pelosi...