Skip to content
Transportation
Link copied to clipboard

Billions and billions in bag fees

Here are some more DOT numbers, these released today, to chew on: U.S. airlines collected $3.4 billion in baggage fees from their customers in 2010. Read details for each carrier here. Reservation change fees were worth more than $2 billion in extra revenue. Those are the only two categories of non-ticket, or 'ancillary' revenue that government statisticians are able to track as separate revenue for the airlines.