Travelers have had enough. The question now is what changes could be in store and what those changes will mean for travelers.
U.S. presidents don’t usually wade into the minutiae of airline seat selection, yet that’s exactly what President Joe Biden did during his State of the Union Address earlier this year, spending nearly two minutes of the speech decrying “junk fees.”
“We’ll prohibit airlines from charging $50 round-trip for a family just to be able to sit together,” Biden said during the speech. “Baggage fees are bad enough. Airlines can’t treat your child like a piece of baggage.” Now the question is what changes to these fees could be in store and what those changes will mean for travelers. — Lauren Wolfe, traveler advocate and founder of the website KillResortFees.com How we got here The “à la carte” model of offering low initial prices with fees for add-ons became commonplace in the internet search era.
“If you want to stay at an above-average Marriott MAR hotel in Boston, there’s an 85% chance you’ll get a resort fee,” says Wolfe, citing data she collected. “I was surprised that my recent hotel in Tulsa didn’t charge one.” Airbnb ABNB , which has caught flak for its cleaning fees, has introduced the option to see full prices in search results, including all taxes and fees.
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