Comments on: American Airlines just made my you-know-what list http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/ kristenrudd.com Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:05:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: nathan http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/#comment-5669 Mon, 26 May 2008 00:09:04 +0000 http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/#comment-5669 just be glad you don't fly frontier. You'd have to pay for those bags, AND even higher charges to check your antlers. http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_9361620 just be glad you don’t fly frontier. You’d have to pay for those bags, AND even higher charges to check your antlers.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_9361620

]]> by: cynthia http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/#comment-5664 Sun, 25 May 2008 16:11:40 +0000 http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/#comment-5664 I hadn't even thought of all of this. It's going to get expensive! I hadn’t even thought of all of this. It’s going to get expensive!

]]> by: A.Y. Siu http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/#comment-5611 Thu, 22 May 2008 17:19:07 +0000 http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/#comment-5611 Yeah, this is ridiculous. I don't understand why they don't raise the price and itemize the bill... I could see this coming, though, when they started charging for meals in-flight. They might as well just make the airline ticket free and then charge you for individual items every step of the way. When you check in, you pay the person checking you in for checking you in. When you go through the security check, you give a little security-check fee to all the security guards. When you board the plane, you pay a customer-service fee to the flight attendants. When on your way to your seat, you pay a fee to the pilot for flying the plane, and she will also collect the fuel and plane maintenance charge for the plane itself. Before you're allowed to pick up your baggage, you pay a fee to the baggage handlers, and then as you leave the airport, you pay a fee to cover everything else (airport operations, website upkeep, advertising costs, HR, etc.). Yeah, this is ridiculous. I don’t understand why they don’t raise the price and itemize the bill…

I could see this coming, though, when they started charging for meals in-flight.

They might as well just make the airline ticket free and then charge you for individual items every step of the way.

When you check in, you pay the person checking you in for checking you in. When you go through the security check, you give a little security-check fee to all the security guards. When you board the plane, you pay a customer-service fee to the flight attendants. When on your way to your seat, you pay a fee to the pilot for flying the plane, and she will also collect the fuel and plane maintenance charge for the plane itself. Before you’re allowed to pick up your baggage, you pay a fee to the baggage handlers, and then as you leave the airport, you pay a fee to cover everything else (airport operations, website upkeep, advertising costs, HR, etc.).

]]> by: scaughey http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/#comment-5610 Thu, 22 May 2008 17:17:13 +0000 http://kristenrudd.com/blog/2008/05/22/american-airlines-just-made-my-you-know-what-list/#comment-5610 don't you miss the days when travel was an adventure rather than a hassle? don’t you miss the days when travel was an adventure rather than a hassle?

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