{"id":361434,"date":"2010-09-21T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/airlines-collect-2-1-billion-in-extra-fees-in-2q\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T10:21:00","slug":"airlines-collect-2-1-billion-in-extra-fees-in-2q","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/airlines-collect-2-1-billion-in-extra-fees-in-2q\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines Collect $2.1 Billion in Extra Fees in 2Q"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDelta gained the most profit in second quarter <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n
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\nU.S. airlines collected $2.1 billion in extra charges and fees from passengers in the second quarter. That’s a 13 percent increase from the first three months of the year, the government announced Monday.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe extra charges and fees assisted major U.S. airlines in posting their first profitable quarter since 2007. A majority of the fees came from checked luggage, which increased 16 percent to $893 million. \n<\/p>\n

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\nReservation fees totaled $594 million, up from $553.9 million in the first quarter of this year. Airlines recorded $618 million in ancillary revenue, which includes revenue from frequent-flier award program mileage sales and fees regarding pets.\n<\/p>\n

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\nAdditional fees, such as revenue from seating assignments and on-board food, drink, and amenities, are not broken down by the government. \n<\/p>\n

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\nDelta, currently world’s largest airline, made the most money in total extras at $682 million. American is next in line, followed by US Airways.\n<\/p>\n

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\nSource: msnbc <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Delta gained the most profit in second quarter       U.S. airlines collected $2.1 billion in extra charges and fees from passengers in the second quarter. That’s a 13 percent increase from the first three months of the year, the government announced Monday.   The extra charges and fees assisted major U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}