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April 21, 2008

United Raises Fees for Ticket Changes, Revives Saturday Stay Requirement

Filed under: Airline Fees, United — Rick Seaney @ 11:36 am

 

United Airlines is upping the ante when it comes to the “ticket change” fee; it’s upped it from $100 to $150. Some hike, huh?

And United is also reinstituting the old “Saturday Night Stay-over” requirement; this will affect about 65% of the cities it serves. Essentially, it means business folks who like to get home for the weekend will be penalized with higher fares.

But you can’t really blame the airlines. As United’s Robin Urbanski put it, “We are facing a cost increase of more than $2 billion this year, and that is more than twice the operating earnings we generated last year.”

I think this is what’s called a “lose-lose” situation.
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1 Comment »

  1. Okay Rick, it is getting weirder and weirder. I don’t blame the airlines either.

    We’ve also read about the airlines taking out some of the lavatories to add seats and reduce weight. What else is possible?

    Comment by beatofhawaii.com — April 21, 2008 @ 4:10 pm

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