According to statistics from the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the airline industry collected at least US$1.9 billion through ancillary fees in the fou ...

We've all been there. You've searched high and low for the cheapest seat flying to wherever, and when you're all set to check out, bam, you're hit with *** seat selection option that adds more cost to ...

Checked bags, onboard food, the ability to pick your seat, seat upgrades... As long as revenue growth continues like this, expect the airline industry to not only maintain their ancillary fee programs ...

Only 21 percent of travel managers are tracking ancillary fees while those fees account for over 8 percent of total travel spending, according to research ranking over 40 airline, hotel and rental car ...

The battle that the airlines are staging regarding nondisclosure of ancillary fees is a strange one, says Charlie Leocha, director, Consumer Travel Alliance (CTA) and vividly displayed during the last ...

Managing ancillary fees for business travel, especially for air travel, continues to be a vexing topic for travel management professionals and a primary focal point at industry forums. Even as ...

Airline passengers who are fed up with all those extra fees now charged by carriers are in for some bad news: More of the same is yet to come. That was the message from the Ancillary Revenue Airline ...

Heeding corporate travel buyer complaints about the lack of reporting to identify, reconcile and manage the growing volume of ancillary fees, Continental Airlines and MasterCard Worldwide have ...

It’s summertime, and airlines are trying, as they always do, to build up their cash reserves to survive the winter. This year, though, they’re also trying to survive a recession. As the airlines cut ...

Frontier Airlines has done an exceptional job in recent years of increasing its revenue from ancillary fees, including baggage. But a recent, unseemly scene I experienced while boarding a Frontier ...

- The exact second in 1928 when Harry Reese thought to himself, 'Hey, I wonder what this Hershey bar would taste like if I smothered it with peanut butter?' (Side note: That dude was a genius.) - And, ...