Travelers are resigned to paying more and getting less. Do they deserve this?
Don’t look now, but air travelers are paying more and getting less — and they’re fine with it.
Don’t look now, but air travelers are paying more and getting less — and they’re fine with it.
Imagine this: Your flight’s been delayed over and over. But when you ask a lone worker staffing the customer service counter for help, he just shrugs. There’s no meal voucher, no compensation — not even an apology. Just an indifferent employee telling you to deal with it.
Junk fees — hidden, mandatory extras added to your final bill — have mushroomed in recent months and travelers are crying foul. The government is waging a public war against these annoying extras, but businesses still love hitting their customers with extras because fooling them into paying more is highly profitable.
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