Airline Ticket: $10 -- Pillow: $15 -- Drunk Passengers: Priceless!!!

[DeSwiss]

Airline Ticket: $10; Pillow: $15
Ultra-low-cost carriers cut freebies to keep fares low. Some flight attendants are paid partly on commission.

By Peter Pae, LA Times Staff Writer
May 29, 2007


How low can airfares go?

Try $10 for a one-way ticket from Burbank to Columbus, Ohio. Or $9 from Los Angeles International Airport to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Better yet, there is a 1-cent fare for flights from LAX to Guatemala.

Yes, those are actual fares offered by a new generation of carriers that are redefining budget travel by taking "low-cost, no-frills" service to new heights.

Such as $15 for a pillow. Or two bucks for water. Don't want a middle seat? You can pay $10 and you can jump ahead of the line to board a Skybus Airlines plane.

And the flight attendants are paid partly on commission based on in-flight sales.

more: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fi-cheapflights29may29,0,3974712.story?coll=la-tot-topstories&track=ntothtml

*** - What??? $15 bucks for a pillow!!!! $2 bucks for water!!!! And the drunker that the flight attendants can get you, the more money they'll earn on commission???

Just think, if marijauna was legal they'd make a killer profit on Doritos alone....

[MsKandice01]

1. Sounds good to me...

LOL!

[pscot]

2. If there's an award for best smilie

you got my vote.

[DeSwiss]

3. TY n/t

[Matsubara]

4. No thanks. I'll fly a regular discount line and bring my own drinks.

Sounds like a very annoying flight to me. I'd rather fly in peace without being bothered by flight attendants desperate to sell me a USA TODAY.

[DeSwiss]

5. Yeah, even though....

...I think that 1¢ flight to Guatemala comes with FREE mosquito netting...