Originally Posted by
KoKoBuddy
I never get the hatred for fee based airline service. Virtually every other business runs this way. You get a base product for $X and then every add-on costs $Y. Yet when an airline offers a flight from point A to B for $X and then you have to pay $Y for a drink or checked bags or a blanket everyone freaks out.
True but the airline has a captive audience. If I buy a printer from, lets say, Amazon I am not obliged to buy my paper and ink from them too. Whereas once on a plane my options for buying drinks, blankets etc are distinctly limited. What's more if I have a problem with my computer I can phone Amazon at no cost. If I can't print my boarding pass for a Ryanair flight i'm stuffed.
What I object to is that airlines take advantage of their customer's lack of alternatives to gouge them for as much money as possible.