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  • American, JetBlue and Alaska have all raised baggage fees this year.
  • Carriers have changed the price to check a bag depending on whether travelers pay for it in advance or at the airport.
  • Airlines and other companies have been grappling with how to grow profits while reining in costs, such as new labor contracts.
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[–] Redshlrt 89 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And that's the problem. It's not enough to be profitable, you have to be more profitable year over year, forever.

[–] Winter8593 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Infinite growth is unsustainable. How long before it collapses?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The next recession when they'll get bailed out by the government (yet again) and start the same process over again.

[–] tb_ 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Privatize the gains, socialize the losses

Oh wait but it's wrong when the people get government support, that's socialism!

[–] A_Random_Idiot 7 points 8 months ago

Wish we'd start socializing the gains and privitizing the fuckin losses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Or the environment collapses, whichever happens first.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

When we realize that part of the solution is to kill the culprits.

There is plenty of historical precedent...