The coming airline fees every traveler should know about in 2013
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The airlines have pretty much settled on most of the kinds of ancillary services they want to charge you for, and now it's all about marketing experts and revenue managers figuring out new ways to get you to pay for them, or to hand them out for "free" to their most loyal customers.
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You can expect a bundle of new airline ancillary services options and fees in 2013 -- literally.
Marketing experts and tech geeks are busy figuring out new ways to dig deeper into your wallets and purses in airline boardrooms and labs around the world.
Rather than unleash a bunch of new services, the biggest upcoming airline-fee trend globally in 2013 is that airlines will begin bundling five or ten services at a time, and giving travelers the choice of picking two or three at a discount, says Carrie DeMoss, manager of product strategy at Airline Tariff Publishing Co. (ATPCO), the airline-owned fare-data clearinghouse.
For example, airlines may present passengers with a choice of a checked bag, a seat assignment, priority boarding, a lounge pass, and a meal, and ask them to select two or three for a discounted price.
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