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Old Aug 9, 2007 | 7:56 am
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Originally Posted by salut0
No disrespect to jrhone intended, but I think that the service provided isn't worth the $60 ($75?) it costs. It can't cost that much to do paperwork, and the fee could at least buy the child entry to the AC to pass the time... :-)

Judging by my own experience as a UM almost 20 years ago, and my niece's experience recently, the AA employees we encountered didn't actually do much that was worth the fee.
It's not intended to be cost recovery; it's incremental revenue, the same as all the other nuisance nickel-and-dime fees.
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