If you take the word “free” and rip the “r” out of it, what do you get?
Two things, actually: You get a “fee”—and then you get mad.
This is happening to millions of airline passengers who are discovering that the advertised price of a ticket isn’t the half of it.
Airlines have added beaucoup fees, charging us for items that previously were—and still should be—free. People’s rage-ometers zing into the red zone when they see that these fees-for-former-freebies will often more than double the cost of a trip.
