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Carry-on baggage fees are one of the most outrageous fees that traveler's get hit with these days. It's no surprise then that a number of work-arounds to this fee have been developed, including shipping your luggage or wearing your carry-on in the form of a ScotteVest jacket. Speaking of the...

Steven Slater's daring departure from a JetBlue airplane last month made him the darling of disgruntled airline employees everywhere. But the former flight attendant is showing less braggadocio these days, having agreed to a mental evaluation as he attempts to avoid jail time.

Airlines plan to nearly triple the number of planes with in-flight Internet access this year, but fewer than one in 50 passengers currently pay for the service. When will WiFi revenues start to take off?

The Justice Department said it has no further antitrust concerns about a merger between United Airlines and Continental Airlines, clearing a major hurdle for the union.

The UPS Store has launched a new product, which it calls "luggage boxes," marketed as a product to enable customers to get out of paying airline baggage fees by shipping their possessions ahead of time. The boxes themselves, which look like cardboard suitcases with a handle, cost $12.95 for a...

As I drank in the stunning views of a snow-capped Mt. Rainier on a recent Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Los Angeles, the flight attendants were on the loudspeaker upselling hard. It wasn't whiskey, or perfume, or headphones that they were hawking, but rather the airlines' co-branded Visa...

Passengers paid out billions of dollars last year in airline fees for everything from checking their bags, bringing their pets on board and making changes to a reservation, according to a new government report. Carriers raked in $7.8 billion in revenues from ancillary fees in 2009, up 42% from a...

We've all seen them: The people who clog the aisle while boarding an airplane. Why, oh why, don't they just sit down so the plane can take off on time? In a slight turn of the tables, I thought I'd take a look at what makes the worst type of airline passenger from the standpoint of people who...

Anyone using the electronic kiosks to check in for a United Airlines flight now must learn how to navigate three more added fee hurdles. That's because United has rigged its check-in procedure with a onslaught of three pitches to load up more extra costs. If I had pressed the wrong buttons on a...

New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is already prone to delays, with most frequent travelers being able to recall at least one horror story about being stranded at the facility for hours awaiting news of a rescheduled flight. With JFK's longest runway closed for repairs starting this...