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Great half-term rip-off as hidden airport charges take off
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Joe Curry
2011-02-20 14:21:27 UTC
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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Families heading off for their half-term holidays will need to take
extra money to the airport to pay for soaring hidden charges, experts
warn.

Budget airlines have increased costs of airline baggage fees, credit
card charges and online check-ins by up to 400% in a year.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358775/Budget-airlines-hike-hidden-charges-400.html
Roland Perry
2011-02-20 15:17:46 UTC
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Post by Joe Curry
Families heading off for their half-term holidays will need to take
extra money to the airport to pay for soaring hidden charges, experts
warn.
Budget airlines have increased costs of airline baggage fees, credit
card charges and online check-ins by up to 400% in a year.
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
--
Roland Perry
Graeme Wall
2011-02-20 19:58:25 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by Joe Curry
Families heading off for their half-term holidays will need to take
extra money to the airport to pay for soaring hidden charges, experts
warn.
Budget airlines have increased costs of airline baggage fees, credit
card charges and online check-ins by up to 400% in a year.
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
Quiet day at the Daily Mail I expect...
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Graeme Wall
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Joe Curry
2011-02-21 11:00:42 UTC
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:58:25 +0000, Graeme Wall
Post by Graeme Wall
Post by Roland Perry
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
Quiet day at the Daily Mail I expect...
Bring back Jimmy Young on Radio 2.. :-)
Graeme Wall
2011-02-21 11:40:38 UTC
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Post by Joe Curry
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:58:25 +0000, Graeme Wall
Post by Graeme Wall
Post by Roland Perry
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
Quiet day at the Daily Mail I expect...
Bring back Jimmy Young on Radio 2.. :-)
Gods No!
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Graeme Wall
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Railway Miscellany at <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail>
Photo galleries at <http://graeme-wall.fotopic.net>
Joe Curry
2011-02-22 13:21:34 UTC
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:40:38 +0000, Graeme Wall
Post by Graeme Wall
Post by Joe Curry
Bring back Jimmy Young on Radio 2.. :-)
Gods No!
The readers of the Daily Mail and listeners of his show were one and
the same.. :-(
Joe Curry
2011-02-21 10:58:05 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by Joe Curry
Budget airlines have increased costs of airline baggage fees, credit
card charges and online check-ins by up to 400% in a year.
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
One wonders if these hacks do any research..
Roland Perry
2011-02-21 11:46:45 UTC
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Post by Joe Curry
Post by Roland Perry
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
One wonders if these hacks do any research..
Or failing that, have ever bought an airline ticket in their private
lives.
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Roland Perry
tim....
2011-02-21 13:16:02 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by Joe Curry
Post by Roland Perry
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
One wonders if these hacks do any research..
Or failing that, have ever bought an airline ticket in their private
lives.
I'm sure that they were just speaking metaphorically

tim
Joe Curry
2011-02-22 13:22:32 UTC
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Post by Roland Perry
Post by Joe Curry
One wonders if these hacks do any research..
Or failing that, have ever bought an airline ticket in their private
lives.
Definitely not...
William Black
2011-02-21 18:07:49 UTC
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Post by Joe Curry
Post by Roland Perry
Post by Joe Curry
Budget airlines have increased costs of airline baggage fees, credit
card charges and online check-ins by up to 400% in a year.
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
One wonders if these hacks do any research..
It's 'The Daily Mail'

Of course they don't.
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William Black

"Any number under six"

The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of
Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
single handed with a quarterstaff.
pete
2011-02-21 19:16:38 UTC
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Post by Joe Curry
Post by Roland Perry
Post by Joe Curry
Budget airlines have increased costs of airline baggage fees, credit
card charges and online check-ins by up to 400% in a year.
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
One wonders if these hacks do any research..
And let facts get in the way of a good story?
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tim....
2011-02-22 10:59:15 UTC
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Post by Joe Curry
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Post by Joe Curry
Budget airlines have increased costs of airline baggage fees, credit
card charges and online check-ins by up to 400% in a year.
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
One wonders if these hacks do any research..
And let facts get in the way of a good story?
The argument here isn't over a fact, it's over a semantic (I.e whether these
"extras" are paid for at the airport or at the time of booking). The
claimed "fact", that they have gone up by 400%, has not been questioned.

tim
pete
2011-02-22 11:21:35 UTC
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Post by tim....
Post by pete
Post by Joe Curry
Post by Roland Perry
Post by Joe Curry
Budget airlines have increased costs of airline baggage fees, credit
card charges and online check-ins by up to 400% in a year.
Most people buy their tickets (and extras) before they arrive at the
airport!
One wonders if these hacks do any research..
And let facts get in the way of a good story?
The argument here isn't over a fact, it's over a semantic (I.e whether these
"extras" are paid for at the airport or at the time of booking). The
claimed "fact", that they have gone up by 400%, has not been questioned.
s/facts/semantics/
happy now?
Roland Perry
2011-02-22 11:25:12 UTC
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Post by tim....
The argument here isn't over a fact, it's over a semantic (I.e whether these
"extras" are paid for at the airport or at the time of booking). The
claimed "fact", that they have gone up by 400%, has not been questioned.
It's easy to find one or two examples of "400% fee increases", and I
have no reason to doubt:

"Jet2 have quadrupled online check-in charges with hand luggage
from £1 to £4"

but set in a context of holiday budgets of £2k-6K mentioned later in the
article, it's difficult to get too worked up.
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Roland Perry
tim....
2011-02-22 14:47:18 UTC
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Post by tim....
The argument here isn't over a fact, it's over a semantic (I.e whether these
"extras" are paid for at the airport or at the time of booking). The
claimed "fact", that they have gone up by 400%, has not been questioned.
It's easy to find one or two examples of "400% fee increases", and I
"Jet2 have quadrupled online check-in charges with hand luggage
from £1 to £4"
but set in a context of holiday budgets of £2k-6K mentioned later in the
article, it's difficult to get too worked up.
But the press is like that.

As I'm currently sitting at home all day a couple of weeks ago I caught
"save your holiday" on the TV.

It was all about resolving holiday complaints of people whilst there were
still there.

The voice over would say something like "despite paying 1200 pounds for
their holiday it didn't meet their expectations ...."

And I was thinking. "They paid 1200 quid for a family of four ALL INCLUSIVE
and were surprised that the food was rubbish" - what the hell did they think
that they were going to get for such a tiny amount of money!

tim
Roland Perry
2011-02-22 15:03:03 UTC
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The voice over would say something like "despite paying 1200 pounds for
their holiday it didn't meet their expectations ...."
And I was thinking. "They paid 1200 quid for a family of four ALL INCLUSIVE
and were surprised that the food was rubbish" - what the hell did they think
that they were going to get for such a tiny amount of money!
Although if it's off-season then the resort is probably happy to get
whatever it can, and it's a fallacy to claim that the "cost" of a
holiday is tightly coupled to the price asked on any one particular
week. I wonder if the papers moan and groan about the "mark-up" applied
to football stadium tickets during a Cup Final - compared to what they
were for a minor league match the week before?
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Roland Perry
tim....
2011-02-22 19:30:56 UTC
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Post by tim....
The voice over would say something like "despite paying 1200 pounds for
their holiday it didn't meet their expectations ...."
And I was thinking. "They paid 1200 quid for a family of four ALL INCLUSIVE
and were surprised that the food was rubbish" - what the hell did they think
that they were going to get for such a tiny amount of money!
Although if it's off-season then the resort is probably happy to get
whatever it can, and it's a fallacy to claim that the "cost" of a holiday
is tightly coupled to the price asked on any one particular week. I wonder
if the papers moan and groan about the "mark-up" applied to football
stadium tickets during a Cup Final - compared to what they were for a
minor league match the week before?
I agree.

I had a week off season in a hotel in Tunisia, where the cost was barely
enough to cover the food and staff costs.

They obviously just keep the hotel open to keep the staff employed all year
(and because the weather allowed them to do this)

tim

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