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UPHOLSTERY
CLEANING
Sofa: $69.00
Loveseat: $49.00
Sectional: $ 109 - $ 139
Chair or Recliner
$25 - $49
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• Spot & Stain
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• Minor Water Damage
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PRICES & SERVICES
Call for Appointment
(503) 281-3949
The Airline Industry’s Fee-for-All
Nearly every airline these days is addicted to fees
J im H ightower
onerous fees.
Those who say
Make a reservation? Do it your­
we should run gov­
self, or pay extra. Check a bag? The
ernment like a busi­
fee for that is so pricey that most
ness must not be fre­
passengers have had to turn them­
quent flyers.
selves into mules, toting their full
Flying, which was once a fairly load on board — which the airlines
good experience, now amounts to view as a new fee opportunity, plan­
being herded, harassed, barked at, ning to charge us for storing the
and squeezed — w hile being stuff we schlep onto the plane.
dunned every step of the way for
What's next — a charge to use
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the toilet?
Yes! Here's the chief executive
officer of Ryanair in Europe: "One
thing we are looking at again is the
possibility of maybe putting a coin
slot on the toilet door." After all,
mused another Ryanair executive, a
toilet tax would be voluntary, since
passengers have the option of not
using the toilet.
Even though the airlines are in
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the black again and keep raising
their ticket prices (three times alone
in 2012), they still keep jacking up
fees, because they can. It's free
money they can simply lift out of
travelers' wallets. "We're all about
finding ways of raising discretion­
ary revenue," gloated the chief of
Ryanair.
Nearly every airline these days is
addicted to fees, and the already
huge take is growing — these add­
ons will pluck $36 billion dollars
from us customers this year, $4 bil­
lion more than last year.
Is there a tipping point at which
consumer grumbling about these
gouges turns to rebellion? A group
c alle d A irF areW atch D o g .co m
thinks so. Noting that airlines are
making profits again, it reports that
the flying public has had it up to
here with fees.
Delta, for one, has responded.
Not by cutting fees, but by exclud­
ing from its public reports the full
amount of fee revenue it takes from
us.
Jim Hightower is a radio com­
mentator, writer, and public
speaker.