Originally Posted by
timfountain
Eh? They used to be included in the cost of your ticket and are now priced separately, without any commensurate reduction in base ticket price. How is that good for anyone except the airline industry?
Prices go up and down. Airlines, like any business, must make a profit to stay in business. Prices may not have gone down (and I won't concede that point) but they could just as easily avoided pushing them upwards. So the ticket that you pay $300 for might easily have been raised to $335 without the fees. The effect is the same, you don't pay for things you don't use. Since we have not seen a massive surge in airline profits it would appear that they are just changing who they get the revenue from.