{"id":97167611,"date":"2010-07-15T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/u-s-airlines-collect-billions-on-extra-fees\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:23:00","slug":"u-s-airlines-collect-billions-on-extra-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/u-s-airlines-collect-billions-on-extra-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Airlines Collect Billions on Extra Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Optional service fees are not being fully disclosed to travelers<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nU.S airlines collect billions of dollars in fees for check-on luggage, refreshments and other services previously included in ticket prices, however consumers have a difficult time understanding how much they&rsquo;ll pay in all to fly, a congressional committee heard Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe House subcommittee on aviation held the sometimes controversial hearing to consider a U.S. Government Accountability Office statement on the fees airlines have charged in recent years on services that were considered part of ticket prices.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOptional service fees are not fully disclosed to passengers at the time of booking, said a summary of the report which also stated that airlines reported revenue of $7.9 billion from baggage fees and reservation alteration and cancellation fees from 2008-2009.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/TRAVEL\/07\/14\/house.airline.fees\/?hpt=Sbin\" target=\"_blank\"><em> CNN<\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Optional service fees are not being fully disclosed to travelers &nbsp; U.S airlines collect billions of dollars in fees for check-on luggage, refreshments and other services previously included in ticket prices, however consumers have a difficult time understanding how much they&rsquo;ll pay in all to fly, a congressional committee heard Wednesday. &nbsp; The House [&hellip;]<\/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-97167611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167611","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=97167611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}