Help Spirit Airlines concoct some new fees: Walking across the jetway fee. Using the armrest fee....

[marmar]

from the Detroit Free Press:


Spirit Airlines will punish procrastinators by charging $100 for travelers who wait to pay for their carry-on bags until they get to the gate.

The higher charge will begin Nov. 6, Spirit announced on Monday. The fee has been $45.

Spirit and Allegiant are the only airlines in the U.S. that charge for carry-on bags.

Spirit’s rationale? It aims to make customers so wary of the steep fee that all will pay ahead of time. However, Spirit is also raising other bag fees effective Nov. 6. A carry-on bag paid for at booking will be $35, up from $30; a carry-on bag paid for at the airport check-in counter will be $50, up from $40. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20121001/FEATURES07/121001069/spirit-carryon-charging-gate?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

[lolly]

1. Easy--

Bathroom use fee.

[LeftyMom]

2. "Convenience fee" when paying other fees.

[Initech]

10. I've seen airlines in Europe actually charge this.

[DJ13]

3. .10c a minute oxygen fee

You'll pay until you're blue in the face.

[HooptieWagon]

4. Breathing the air in their plane fee...

Walking down the cabin aisle fee.
Seat cushion rental fee.
Filing a customer complaint fee.

[HooptieWagon]

5. I used to enjoy flying.

Now, between the airlines and TSA I avoid it as much as possible. I'd rather drive. My elderly parents switched to trains.

[Art_from_Ark]

6. Ticket agent fee

Internet reservation fee
Waiting area seat-use fee
Ticket scanner fee

[vanlassie]

7. Admiring the Flight attendant fee

[lonestarnot]

8. J John access and TP fee.

[appleannie1]

9. Pay slots on bathroom doors with pay dispensers for toilet paper.

[uncle ray]

11. landing fee.

if that fee is too high there is always the affordable parachute fee.

[Initech]

12. Charging you for the oxygen masks when the plane is in dire emergency.

And on top of that they make you enter those annoying Ticketmaster cryptic access codes in order to use it.