Every time you book a flight these days, you have to be ready for a slippery feeling in your pocket.
Burrowing in there like a pizza-seeking rodent is your airline, looking for any spare change you might have.
A few dollars here, a few dollars there.
It’s all so the airline can make just a little more money and offer you absolutely no additional comforts whatsoever.
You’re a captive audience, you see. Once the airline has you, it wants you to pay through the nose. The ear and throat, too.
So it is the airline industry has concocted a relatively new fee: Charging you extra to sit with your loved ones.
Dispatches From The Front 