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Please don’t use the C-word at this airline fee conference

by Christopher Elliott on September 21, 2009

For some reason, I never got my invitation to the 2009 Ancillary Revenue Airline Conference, which is being held in Los Angeles next month. Maybe it was this post. Or this one. Or maybe this one?

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A losing fight? Airlines earned $10 billion from fees last year, up 345 percent

by Christopher Elliott on September 9, 2009

My friend Addison Schonland said it best: Anyone who thinks baggage fees are going away is living on another planet. And as if to underscore that point, IdeaWorks has released a survey that shows ancillary revenue is up 345 percent from 2006, to an eye-popping $10 billion last year.

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US Airways: “Our legacy airline peers have an advantage”

by Elizabeth Smith on March 23, 2009

Is US Airways suffering because of bad hub location? Consider the following excerpt from the US Airways employee weekly newsletter, About US, dated March 19, 2009.

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