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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Agents increasingly are finding themselves caught in a crossfire between airline distribution channels and politicians over standards for capturing and booking baggage fees and other ancillary ...

Airline passengers now arrive at the airport prepared to be nickeled and dimed all the way to their destination by add-on fees — a moneymaking tool no longer used only by low-cost carriers but by ...