Airlines worldwide are ringing up ever staggering amounts of money from all those pesky ancillary fees. The Wall Street Journal reported on a study out Tuesday that tabbed airline revenue from add-on fees jumped to nearly $22 billion dollars last year. That's up 38 percent from a year earlier.
Ancillary fees have become a godsend to airlines. It is the oxygen in their tanks that keep them afloat. Airlines will continue to find creative ways to come up with new fees. For example, fast line security, a TSA function, is now another fee producer for airlines. To go to a shorter security line reserved for "Premium Passengers", you will have to cough up $19. Ancillary fees and how they are disclosed have become a solution looking for a problem.
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