{"id":944,"date":"2008-06-22T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=944"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T15:37:19","slug":"us-airline-fee-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/06\/22\/us-airline-fee-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"US Airline Fee Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden surcharges and fees are one of those things that I let get to me out of proportion to their actual import.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s the generally dishonest nature of them.\u00c2\u00a0 If you advertise a service at a price, you should deliver that service for that price.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t, advertise at a price for which you *can* deliver that service.\u00c2\u00a0 Not complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was galled by one yesterday when I walked up to a counter in an airport and bought a ticket.\u00c2\u00a0 The ticket was $XXX, along with a &#8220;$25 administrative service charge.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 I just walked up to <em>your<\/em> desk in <em>your<\/em> airport, and <em>you<\/em> want <em>me<\/em> to pay another $25 for the privilege of buying a ticket from you?\u00c2\u00a0 WTF?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in the spirit of these things, here&#8217;s a very handy chart outlining the <a href=\"http:\/\/rickseaney.com\/domestic-airline-fee-chart\/\">current US domestic airline fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link courtesy of the comments section of the always interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/travelogue.travelvice.com\/united-states\/connections-to-krakow\/\">Travelvice<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hidden surcharges and fees are one of those things that I let get to me out of proportion to their actual import.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s the generally dishonest nature of them.\u00c2\u00a0 If you advertise a service at a price, you should deliver that service for that price.\u00c2\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t, advertise at a price for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}