Stories like this always make me laugh.
The report, released by consulting firm IdeaWorks, found ancillary fees have gone up 66 per cent from $13.5 billion generated in 2009. In the case of United, the extra revenue amounts to $36.47 per passenger in fees.
Really, they had to get a consulting firm for this? The fees are reported on the monthly government reports available for free to everybody. They really couldn't get somebody to go through the last few years of reports and put the numbers into a worksheet?
Maybe the headline should be consulting firms bring in millions from people too lazy to add up a couple numbers.