Airlines Rake In $783M In Baggage Fees In First Quarter

NEW YORK –  U.S. airlines collected slightly higher baggage fees in the in the first three months of the year as the number of travelers increased.

The nation's largest airlines reported baggage fees of about $783.7 million in the first three months of the year. That's up nearly 2 percent from the $768.5 million they collected in the same period last year. The airlines carried about 2.4 percent more travelers in the first quarter than they did in the same period a year before.

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EDITORS NOTES: Notice how the MSM doesn't mention what the U.S. Military paid in their share of these quarterly fees.