As if by choosing to travel with their company, we are committing a mistake and we, the consumers…

This is 100% true — except for the part where it’s completely false. Airlines that invent new junk-fees don’t discount their tickets and then tack the fee on top of it — rather, the junk-fee is added to the existing ticket price. And that fee only goes up — and up — and up. When British Airways rolled out its $4 “fuel surcharg…
The airlines were patient zero in the junk-fee plague
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Arindam Basu
Jun 10, 2024
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As if by choosing to travel with their company, we are committing a mistake and we, the consumers, must be punished for our offense. So it be.
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Written by Arindam Basu1.94K followers
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Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,
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