If you’re not familiar with upgrade bidding for airline tickets, it’s time to learn. By entering a virtual auction, passengers who have purchased economy tickets offer to pay a bit more in order to score coveted spots in the front of the plane. If successful, you could end up in a business class seat for…
Spilled drinks, crunched laptop screens and crushed knees. A new video shows the reasons why reclining your seat on airplanes morphed from an acceptable practice into a top irritant for many air passengers. The video is part of an ad campaign launched in late November by the furniture company La-Z-Boy, which includes a petition…
Seats in the economy class cabin on board an American Airlines Boeing Co. 777-300ER aircraft. Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. airline executives are set to defend their seating fees before a Senate panel Wednesday after the subcommittee accused the industry of charging "junk" fees to bring in billions in revenue. American, Delta, United, Spirit and Frontier brought in…
A Delta Air Lines cabin. Leslie Josephs/CNBC A Senate subcommittee on Tuesday slammed U.S. airlines large and small over fees to pick seats on flights. Between 2018 and 2023 American , Delta , United , Spirit and Frontier brought in $12.4 billion in seating fees, including…