Leave it to the grossly overly fee happy airline Spirit Airlines - often seen as the most fee-crazed carrier of all in the U.S. - to come up with the next not needed fee. A fee for checked bags
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USA Today did a survey of recent fee prices for all of those fees airlines love to charge you for the "convenience of only paying for what you need". Or better put, "for services they
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Great story in the NYT by Hugo Martin about how airlines are charging flyers extra to sit in a "new category" (uhh.. new category?) of roomier economy seats. For example, United calls it Economy Plus. Essentially, airlines are finding
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This quote by Kate Hanni, executive director of Flyers Rights, says it all - "They’re the worst airline in the U.S." She goes on to say, "They put no money back into customer service, which is
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It was announced the good old Spirit Airlines, home of the fees, was going to ask as much as $100 to put a bag in the overhead storage if paid at the gate. This $100
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We love to dish on poor airline PR and Spirit Airlines (who has a pathetic 2 star review on Yelp and 1.5 star review on AirlineQuality.com) continues to make bad moves.
The latest move (next
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As the title says, one of the lessor obvious revenue methods is to allow you to sit with your kids IF your willing to pay extra to do so. As we know, some airlines like
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Wow, it seems Spirit Airlines - a "budget" airlines - is taking the concept of feeing the customer to death to a whole new level with one of the reportedly "sneakiest fees" in the industry
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If you use a metro much in travels, you are use to the ubiquitous advertisements plastered all over the inside of the metro trains. Well, the airline industry is starting to take a page from
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Wow, these guys did it again. And quickly. Not only are they charging you to put a carry on bag in the overhead compartment, they are now adding non-reclining seats to new planes! That's right..
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