Airline Fees
Cause I'm leavin' on a jet plane
Don't know when I'll be back again
Oh babe, I hate to go
- song lyrics
As a child I loved flying. It was an adventure with fun food and friendly attendants. My father was an air traffic controller for the Air Force and he would take the kids to the cockpit to meet the pilot and see the controls.
Now-a-days it is a different story. Take off most of your clothes to be scanned, have your bottled water confiscated, pay for any food on board, etc. Today flying involves lots of add-on fees. Who charges the most fees? The least? The answer can be found on a comparison chart at
http://www.kayak.com/h/airlinefees
Bottom Line
My wife and I fly a lot less today than 15 years ago. This summer we decided to drive halfway cross the country to visit my sister instead of flying. It was far but the driving was part of the adventure with many tourist stops along the way. As a rule we'll drive someplace if we can. There is much much "convenience" in flying.
Labels: Air Travel, Budget, Charts
posted by Gary W Kibble at
1:00 AM
1 Comments:
My father owned a construction company which built roads all over Wyoming. I often traveled with him when he bid on jobs or was working. I love driving and road trips.
I had never been on a plane until I was 17. Flying isn't my favorite mode of transportation. It is fast, but sometimes the speed and convenience proves more disorienting then you would think.
When we went to Israel for several weeks, I found the transition from Sweden to Israel too abrupt. I wished for more time to process and adjust.
That said, we'll be flying to Wyoming in February, since time is the luxury we don't have.
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