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US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

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663 points duxup | 1 comments | 24 Sep 25 12:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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doodaddy ◴[24 Sep 25 13:12 UTC] No.45359838[source]▶
> Instead of the clear, itemized pricing system that passengers currently rely on, airlines could hide fees until later in the booking process…

They call what we have now “clear”? Where when looking at a page of flights I don’t know how much the multitude of economy/economy+/economy++/premium economy/business/business++ seats will cost until I click on each flight? Where every carrier offers slightly different variations of these seats such that I can’t cross-shop on Google Flights?

Is that the clear and transparent system the airlines are complaining about?

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1. kindatrue ◴[24 Sep 25 17:03 UTC] No.45363115[source]▶
Those are all optional fees.

What they want is a return to the old pre-Obama days where all the taxes and mandatory fees (government and stuff they made up) were only displayed at check out. Kind of like resort fees on hotels.