Okay, I’m flying from Newark to London and I am expecting a surcharge to be added to my ticket cost if we actually want to land, there will be an extra fee if you want to land near a gate that is reasonably close to your connecting flight.
That will be $27.00 please.
One airline is planning on doing away with flight attendants and rather leave you to fight your way on the plane and find a good seat. Another is offering a personal assistant fee in case you actually want some service as minuscule as it may be. Hey, I made that up but who knows with the idiots running airlines these days.
Does marketing matter at all, are we just so many sides of beef to be loaded and unloaded? Here is a clue for someone who is smart, set up an all-inclusive fare, no extras for nuttin, just the price of the damn ticket. Something like a resort with all-inclusive room rates. Oh wait, that’s a retro concept isn’t it?
Remember those seats over the wing with extra room they used to give out at the last-minute, I just paid an extra $98.00 for one. Why you ask, because I don’t want the moron in front of me to spring back his seat and cut off my breathing. Fifty pounds of luggage you say, go over that by a pound on Continental/United and you get whacked for $200…no kidding. Free drinks; long gone, they even charge for water on some flights. International flights last year still gave you a glass of wine; no more. They charge you to check a bag, limit it to 50 pounds and then allow 40 pounds in a carry on. That makes a lot of sense, wasn’t is hard enough dealing with all the trunk size carry on people used to try to cram into the over head compartments before all this nonsense? Compartments by the way that are getting smaller.
I’m thinking this is a stimulus package in disguise. All you will be able to bring with you is a set of underwear and a tooth-brush and then be forced to buy all your clothes at your arrival destination. If you are going to China, that’s no problem, your clothes are there already.
Why do we put up with this, why oh why? If there was ever a disregard for the customer, this is it and the airlines get away with it.
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That’s a good one. I know, it is disgusting what they are getting away with. Spirit Airlines is now charging you to print your boarding pass. Pretty soon they will put a surcharge on if you want a pilot. Absurd I realize but with the computer and auto pilots WHO KNOWS!
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