LATEST AIRLINES FEE: PAY TOILETS!!!!!

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Don't Put Anything Past the Airlines as They Struggle to Raise Cash
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Business ... 546&page=1
By RICK SEANEY
FareCompare.com CEO

June 4, 2008

RSS I think it was the "antler fee" that finally sent me around the bend.

Would the airlines dare charge passengers to use the bathroom?
(ABC News Photo Illustration)
More PhotosThat's right, I said antlers. Frontier Airlines has raised the cost of transporting a rack of antlers from $75 to $100. I wasn't aware antler transport was such a big deal, which made me wonder: What other off-the-wall fees are airlines collecting these days? More to the point, what new fees are airline execs even now plotting to spring on us?

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I do not know, but I decided to try to think like an airline bean-counter and came up with some diabolical possibilities. "Oh, Rick," you may be saying, "these ideas of yours are insane; no one would dare institute such crazy fees." To which I can only reply: I hope not, my friends. I hope not.

And now, in no particular order, here are my Top Ten Totally Crazy Airline Fees -- That Don't Exist -- Yet!