Pillow Fees, $2 Root Beer And Collapsing Seats
Flights take on a certain surreal, thuggish, a la carte quality. What's next, pay for Seating Privilidges or stand up the whole trip?
Pillow and blanket? That'll be seven dollars
"US Airways will likely begin selling pillows and blankets to its customers by the end of the year, following closely behind discount carrier JetBlue Airways Corp., which said Monday it will start charging fliers $7 to use a pillow and blanket."
All your bags are belong to fees - "Tempe, AZ-based US Airways charges $15 for the first checked bag and $25 for a second. Last week, the airline began charging customers $2 for non-alcoholic beverages. It also collects fees associated with choice seating ($5), meals ($7), snack boxes ($5) and alcoholic beverages ($7). United Airlines, owned by Chicago-based UAL Corp., has fees for all checked bags, as well as a $14 option for additional legroom. American Airlines, whose parent AMR Corp. is based in Fort Worth, Texas, charges for checked bags and offers $3 snack options and $5 hot meals on longer flights."
Row of seats on United Airlines flight collapses forcing emergency landing at Sea-Tac
That will be $25 for the non collapsing section.
One of "safest" airlines has had eleven incidents since beginning of the year
"Fairfax newspapers also yesterday printed a list of 11 problems affecting Qantas flights since the beginning of the year. These included the explosion that tore a hole in the fuselage of a jumbo on July 25, the loss of main electrical power on another flight out of London in January, an emergency landing in Hawaii caused by an oxygen leak the same month, and another in March when an external window in business class "popped"."
Airport thugs can seize your, well, everything
"Unless the government has reason to believe you're helping terrorists, it should not be able to seize your laptop at the airport and then read and copy anything in it, including your financial and health records and personal e-mails.
But under a new policy from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. agents can, without any suspicions, take not only your computer, but also books and other printed materials, cell phones, portable music players and anything else "capable of storing information in digital or analog form."
Pillow and blanket? That'll be seven dollars
"US Airways will likely begin selling pillows and blankets to its customers by the end of the year, following closely behind discount carrier JetBlue Airways Corp., which said Monday it will start charging fliers $7 to use a pillow and blanket."
All your bags are belong to fees - "Tempe, AZ-based US Airways charges $15 for the first checked bag and $25 for a second. Last week, the airline began charging customers $2 for non-alcoholic beverages. It also collects fees associated with choice seating ($5), meals ($7), snack boxes ($5) and alcoholic beverages ($7). United Airlines, owned by Chicago-based UAL Corp., has fees for all checked bags, as well as a $14 option for additional legroom. American Airlines, whose parent AMR Corp. is based in Fort Worth, Texas, charges for checked bags and offers $3 snack options and $5 hot meals on longer flights."
Row of seats on United Airlines flight collapses forcing emergency landing at Sea-Tac
That will be $25 for the non collapsing section.
One of "safest" airlines has had eleven incidents since beginning of the year
"Fairfax newspapers also yesterday printed a list of 11 problems affecting Qantas flights since the beginning of the year. These included the explosion that tore a hole in the fuselage of a jumbo on July 25, the loss of main electrical power on another flight out of London in January, an emergency landing in Hawaii caused by an oxygen leak the same month, and another in March when an external window in business class "popped"."
Airport thugs can seize your, well, everything
"Unless the government has reason to believe you're helping terrorists, it should not be able to seize your laptop at the airport and then read and copy anything in it, including your financial and health records and personal e-mails.
But under a new policy from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. agents can, without any suspicions, take not only your computer, but also books and other printed materials, cell phones, portable music players and anything else "capable of storing information in digital or analog form."
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