Budget airlines - what are the real costs?
April 14th 2010 10:24
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No one can resist the advertisement. $139 to Bali (and in small font - 'one way') and sale ends today.
So without hesitation, you hop online, check when it's available, blindly book the flights and smile. You've just got yourself a good deal, and you are going on a holiday.
It's not until you get to the airport do you realise that it wasn't the end of it.
"Sorry sir, you need to pay an extra $30 for check in luggage"
"Excuse me 'mam, would you like a drink?... that would be $5 please"
The cost keep coming, and items for sale are not cheap... Makes you wonder if you did get a good deal or not.
UK budget airline food ripping off passengers - news.com.au
With the whole global economic crisis and airlines losing money, the rules keep changing. And now it seems they want you to pay even for hand held luggage and use of the on-board toilets.
Low-cost travel rules change again - Sydney Morning Herald
Pay-per-loo: Ryanair to charge for toilet trips - ABC news
In a way, having the choice of airlines and the low pricing means that I can travel more often and my dollars can stretch further. Perhaps we all should pay for what we have ordered. Those of us we don't wish to have the food provided by the airline shouldn't have to pay for it... but how far should this go? Should we start paying for even sitting down and reading the in-flight magazines?
And if so, should the airlines use this to their advantage and charge three to four times the normal retail price for the extra priviledge?
So what's the go? Are budget airlines no longer budget? Are we as consumers so readily to be able to swap savings with the extreme lack of service and inclusions?
So without hesitation, you hop online, check when it's available, blindly book the flights and smile. You've just got yourself a good deal, and you are going on a holiday.
It's not until you get to the airport do you realise that it wasn't the end of it.
"Sorry sir, you need to pay an extra $30 for check in luggage"
"Excuse me 'mam, would you like a drink?... that would be $5 please"
The cost keep coming, and items for sale are not cheap... Makes you wonder if you did get a good deal or not.
UK budget airline food ripping off passengers - news.com.au
With the whole global economic crisis and airlines losing money, the rules keep changing. And now it seems they want you to pay even for hand held luggage and use of the on-board toilets.
Low-cost travel rules change again - Sydney Morning Herald
Pay-per-loo: Ryanair to charge for toilet trips - ABC news
In a way, having the choice of airlines and the low pricing means that I can travel more often and my dollars can stretch further. Perhaps we all should pay for what we have ordered. Those of us we don't wish to have the food provided by the airline shouldn't have to pay for it... but how far should this go? Should we start paying for even sitting down and reading the in-flight magazines?
And if so, should the airlines use this to their advantage and charge three to four times the normal retail price for the extra priviledge?
So what's the go? Are budget airlines no longer budget? Are we as consumers so readily to be able to swap savings with the extreme lack of service and inclusions?
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