A Frontier Airlines plane lands at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Feb. 27, 2020. Elizabeth Page Brumley | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Frontier Airlines said it will stop charging customers a fee to change their flights, taking a page from larger competitors as the Biden administration issues…
This travel tip is so simple you may smack your forehead once you learn you could have been using it all along. There's an easy method for avoiding some cancellation fees and getting a refund on supposedly nonrefundable reservations. To illustrated the hack, we'll take an example from the Disney parks. Sit-down restaurants inside…
Everyone knows that travel booking has become an industry of fake-outs and skullduggery, a netherworld of mounting hidden fees that only reveal themselves after you're deep into the reservations process. Buying travel is now a spendy striptease that bleeds accounts by a thousand cuts. The big airlines love to claim they "unbundled" core services like…
The resort fee dam is breaking. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new law, SB 478, that reins in the practice of slipping extra fees into travelers' bills. While some media coverage has portrayed the act as a "ban" on resort fees, the measure actually just enforces disclosure of the fees at all stages of…
A warning for travelers who rely on rideshare company Lyft: The company is quietly hiding the true amount it takes in extra fees that are added to your base fare. A recent ride I took from Orlando International Airport (MCO) illustrates the tactic, although the problem could affect Lyft users wherever the service is available…
It's impossible to be an informed consumer if you're not allowed to know exactly what you're paying for. Frommer's has found that a majority of airports in the United States that force mandatory passenger pickup fees for all rides on Uber, Lyft, and other ride-hailing apps—surcharges that are as high as $7 per trip—are not…
It's almost as if the corporations dominating our lives are determined to make back whatever they missed during the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The cost of living is spiraling upward in multiple areas of Americans' lives, but that didn't stop American Airlines from piling on the misery by springing another fee hike on…
Yesterday we told you that American Airlines decided to spring another fee hike for checked baggage on travelers. Well, airlines tend to raise fees in packs. JetBlue has also surprised customers this month by slamming them with the carrier's own inflation of bag fees. On JetBlue, it now costs $45 to check one bag and another…
What's the point of having "competition" among airlines if they all raise prices in lockstep? Perhaps United Airlines believed that it could minimize news coverage of the deed by announcing it on a Friday. But we caught it: The airline has hiked baggage fees for all flights in North America, from $35 to $40. That's…
Nearly all Sin City hotels now charge a big resort fee—and they can more than double the final price! Here's where the Sin City resort fee shell game stands right now.
Along with gambling and over-imbibing, resort fees have sadly become a way of life in Vegas.…