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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHelp Spirit Airlines concoct some new fees: Walking across the jetway fee. Using the armrest fee....
from the Detroit Free Press:
Spirit Airlines will punish procrastinators by charging $100 for travelers who wait to pay for their carry-on bags until they get to the gate.
The higher charge will begin Nov. 6, Spirit announced on Monday. The fee has been $45.
Spirit and Allegiant are the only airlines in the U.S. that charge for carry-on bags.
Spirits rationale? It aims to make customers so wary of the steep fee that all will pay ahead of time. However, Spirit is also raising other bag fees effective Nov. 6. A carry-on bag paid for at booking will be $35, up from $30; a carry-on bag paid for at the airport check-in counter will be $50, up from $40. ....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20121001/FEATURES07/121001069/spirit-carryon-charging-gate?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
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Help Spirit Airlines concoct some new fees: Walking across the jetway fee. Using the armrest fee.... (Original Post)
marmar
Oct 2012
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Bathroom use fee.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)2. "Convenience fee" when paying other fees.
Initech
(99,912 posts)10. I've seen airlines in Europe actually charge this.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)3. .10c a minute oxygen fee
You'll pay until you're blue in the face.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)4. Breathing the air in their plane fee...
Walking down the cabin aisle fee.
Seat cushion rental fee.
Filing a customer complaint fee.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)5. I used to enjoy flying.
Now, between the airlines and TSA I avoid it as much as possible. I'd rather drive. My elderly parents switched to trains.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)6. Ticket agent fee
Internet reservation fee
Waiting area seat-use fee
Ticket scanner fee
vanlassie
(5,637 posts)7. Admiring the Flight attendant fee
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)8. J John access and TP fee.
appleannie1
(5,043 posts)9. Pay slots on bathroom doors with pay dispensers for toilet paper.
uncle ray
(3,153 posts)11. landing fee.
if that fee is too high there is always the affordable parachute fee.
Initech
(99,912 posts)12. Charging you for the oxygen masks when the plane is in dire emergency.
And on top of that they make you enter those annoying Ticketmaster cryptic access codes in order to use it.