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If it wasn’t costing passengers money right at holiday times, it would be funny. The airlines are once again raising fees. They can’t raise airfares because that would make them uncompetitive, but fees seem to be another thing. Bottom line: Plan to spend another $20 round-trip to your holiday travels on high-travel days.
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Here are the Top 10 issues as ranked as “most important” by this Consumer Alliance poll of newsletter readers. Delayed/canceled flights and hidden fees/surcharges topped the list of issues.
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Matthew Darrah is a senior vice president at Enterprise, where he oversees North American operations for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car. I asked him about the summer’s skyrocketing car rental prices and what travelers should do about some of the new fees they’ve seen on their rental bills.
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Cruising isn’t what it used to be. Just ask Steve Roberts, who recently sailed from Costa Maya, Mexico, to Nassau, Bahamas on the Carnival Glory. Although his floating vacation was billed as an “all inclusive” experience, Roberts found it was anything but that.
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The price of oil has fallen off a cliff. No really. Here’s what it’s going to mean to you.
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Cruise passenger have gotten used to paying surcharges for for special restaurants. But for the main dining room? No cruise line has gone there — until now.
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Even though fuel costs are falling faster than a plane without wings, the airline industry continues to ratchet up fees on its passengers. Unbelievably, it insists it’s because of “high” — or for that matter “volatile” — energy costs. Do they think we’re stupid?
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There’s a lively debate in the blogosphere about when the travel industry will withdraw some of the fees imposed after fuel prices took off earlier this year. With energy prices on a downward trajectory, shouldn’t the surcharges be evaporating, too?
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