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Airlines to Begin Charging for Amenities
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/3/06 | Leslie Miller - ap

Posted on 04/03/2006 1:21:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 04/03/2006 1:21:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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The airline industry's main problem is that they make flying too pleasant an experience. They should hire a bunch of high school dropouts to perform body searches on anyone who enters an airport. They will soon have so many customers they won't know what to do with them all.
2 posted on 04/03/2006 1:24:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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They will keep charging a buck here, three there and wonder why people are getting nastier as they fly. Add in the reports that they are more prone to lose bags and run behind schedule, and you have a perfect storm forming.


3 posted on 04/03/2006 1:24:22 PM PDT by pikachu (Why are all my rich Nigerian relatives dying but none of them can get a will made?)
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Ask for a pillow and blanket to help get through a long flight and you may be out of luck. Or you may be able to buy a "comfort package" from Air Canada for $2.

Just as long as I can bring my own travel pillow. More comfortable than the disintegrated foam fragments the airline offers and far less smelly.
4 posted on 04/03/2006 1:24:59 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This story is about 6 months old.


5 posted on 04/03/2006 1:25:02 PM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: NormsRevenge
Airlines are starting to charge for many services that once were free

They were never free. These fees were included in the price of tickets. How fast do you think they'll waive the barf bag fee when little Billy starts spewing across three rows?

6 posted on 04/03/2006 1:25:28 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn
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Sharon Ansara, a government supervisor from El Paso, Texas, flew an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Washington Monday morning.

"We didn't even get peanuts," she said after the 2-1/2 hour flight. "They offered us a snack pack for $4. It stinks."

Whaaa! Stop at a Quickee-Mart on the way to the airport and fill your purse with peanuts at 2 packs for 99 cents. For 4 bucks you could stop at Subway!

7 posted on 04/03/2006 1:25:40 PM PDT by hattend (Let's unpimp the Democrat Party!)
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To: NormsRevenge

$2.00 to go to the bathroom. It's coming!


8 posted on 04/03/2006 1:26:17 PM PDT by saganite (The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
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"We didn't even get peanuts," she said after the 2-1/2 hour flight. "They offered us a snack pack for $4. It stinks."
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Really sucks, doesn't it? I take my own food now. Much better quality and I get what I want, when I want it. :-)


9 posted on 04/03/2006 1:28:00 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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The airlines respond to the market. My guess is that people are going to want to fly Continental...


10 posted on 04/03/2006 1:28:28 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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Personally, I don't have a problem with this. It makes no sense to offer discount pricing when you have ever-increasing passenger demand on a system with limited capacity.

They will keep charging a buck here, three there and wonder why people are getting nastier as they fly.

The ideal scenario would be for large numbers of these people to simply stop flying. It wasn't all that long ago that airline travel was considered a luxury. Maybe it needs to become a luxury once again.

11 posted on 04/03/2006 1:29:27 PM PDT by Alberta's Child
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I don't object to any of this. Just about everywhere I have flown in the last two years has been on a flight jammed to the teeth. Still the airlines are going broke. It may be that they can't make a profit these days.

On the other hand, I learned to hate flying long before 9-11-2001. It became much worse after that, and I only fly when it isn't feasible to drive. For me that is in an emergency or if the drive is longer than 12 hours. I also think if not for my wife, that 12 hour limit might stretch a bit more. She just isn't long on driving.

Cost is a factor, but much more, I simply hate the atmosphere at airports these days.

12 posted on 04/03/2006 1:30:02 PM PDT by stevem
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Then I expect a refund of $10 per minute when the flight is late!



(along the lines of a Seinfeld episode w/George)


13 posted on 04/03/2006 1:30:16 PM PDT by YouPosting2Me
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"We didn't even get peanuts," she said after the 2-1/2 hour flight.

I'd call the United Nations about that! Clear violation of human rights! Worse than the starvation in Africa!

14 posted on 04/03/2006 1:30:21 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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Sharon Ansara, a government supervisor from El Paso, Texas, flew an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Washington Monday morning.

"We didn't even get peanuts," she said after the 2-1/2 hour flight. "They offered us a snack pack for $4. It stinks."

She didnt pay for the ticket if she is on govt business..

15 posted on 04/03/2006 1:33:05 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Cynthia McKinney- the true face (hairstyle) of the Democrats...)
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United, Delta, Northwest, US Air how many more are going to declare bankruptcy and saddle the taxpayer with pension liabilities before we finally let a couple die for real.
I wonder if these "customer friendly" move will hasten that end for any?
16 posted on 04/03/2006 1:33:14 PM PDT by thinkthenpost
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Sharon Ansara, a government supervisor from El Paso, Texas, flew an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Washington Monday morning. "We didn't even get peanuts," she said after the 2-1/2 hour flight. "They offered us a snack pack for $4. It stinks."

It does my heart good to see government drones getting tweaked.

17 posted on 04/03/2006 1:35:47 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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The airline industry's main problem is that they make flying too pleasant an experience. They should hire a bunch of high school dropouts to perform body searches on anyone who enters an airport. They will soon have so many customers they won't know what to do with them all.

They made it to high school? ;)
18 posted on 04/03/2006 1:36:03 PM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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$2.00 to go to the bathroom. It's coming!

That would be a great moneymaker!

Leave one free bathroom back in steerage class, and charge for all the others.

You ought to register your intellectual property before someone else steals it.

19 posted on 04/03/2006 1:37:17 PM PDT by skip_intro
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Pack a lunch and bring a jacket even if the weather on the ground is warm.


20 posted on 04/03/2006 1:39:14 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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