US Airways Adds $5 Fee for Booking on Its Website

Dec 13th, 2007 | By Jared Blank

Taking a page from universally-beloved Ticketmaster, US Airways has added a $5 fee for bookings made on its own website. It’s essentially a fare increase couched as a service fee, which is nonsense, and I hope the FTC cracks down on this. If you’re going to book on US Airways, consider using Priceline (of all things), which does not charge a service fee (if you haven’t used Priceline in a while, they primarily do regular bookings now, not the old name-your-price thing).

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Nomadic Ostrich December 14th, 2007 4:29 am :
and here is me thinking; websites must be cheaper as the overheads are lower… ever so slightly ridiculous.
Getasmuch$outofthemasyoucan January 10th, 2008 10:32 am :
Ah yes, but ever such an easy way to increase profits.

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