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Where Did Airline Fees Come From, and How Did They Get So Bad? - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic
by thenewgreen

    Airline fees are an unstoppable menace, rising from $2.45 billion in 2008 to a mind-numbing $27 billion in add-ons around the world, according a new report from IdeaWorks Co. Where did they come from? How did they become utterly unavoidable?