Airlines Rake In Billions In Add-On Fees

A $10 in-flight meal here, a $25 bag fee there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.

As in $32.5 billion, which, according to a just-released analysis, is the estimated amount the global airline industry will make in ancillary revenues this year. According to the Amadeus Worldwide Estimate of Ancillary Revenue for 2011, that’s a 43.8 percent increase over the year before.

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