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Higher fares, fewer flights for holiday travelers

Northwest is now charging $15.00 for every bag you check in, not just for over your limit.

I made reservations to bring my son and family home to Atlanta for a wedding Thanksgiving week. The reservations was to fly them back Thanksgiving day because he had to work Friday. The airline cancelled the return flight we had already booked and gave us no alternatives, just returned the money without a sorry or nothin'!! But just the return flight--they kept the first half and wouldn't refund that and if we wanted to change that to get a different roundtrip ticket we would have had to pay an additional $200. We ended up having to buy all new roundtrip tickets on a different airline and our other 1/2 trip is sitting in limbo. It used to be that when airlines had to change your reservations they would work to accomidate you even on another airline--not anymore!! I am disgusted--pay for bags (like we don't need clothes), poor customer service, rude employees. But what can we do--just stop traveling?

but everything going up...what's the excuse this time?

Cheap air travel for the masses is a dying business model. It is a service that can no longer be provided at a profit. The future of air travel is all about richer people traveling in fewer numbers. The rest of us will get re-aquainted with Greyhound or just get used to staying home.

lowonoil...just checked prices on Greyhound Provo to San Diego vs flying SLC to San Diego.... its cheaper to fly by about $100....

The holidays again, and again I expect to pay for the trip to Montana by freighting back a pickup full of beer, whiskey and a few lottery tickets. It's not as fast as flying, but cheaper. Long may prohibition reign.

Stay Home

Look at the upside for those that can still afford the ticket, fewer flights, less congestion, more on time.

it's too bad the only amtrak trains leave SLC in the wee hours of the morning. of course, Amtrak's not inexpensive either.

to "would rather fly" - I wouldn't be at all surprised if you can fly to San Diego cheaper than you can ride on the bus. The business models they use to set the daily prices of hotels, rental cars, and train, bus, ship and airplane tickets are mysterious things. But I do know that it takes about 2.5 gallons of diesel fuel per passenger to drive a fully loaded bus from Salt Lake to San Diego, and about ten times that in jet fuel per passenger to fly a loaded airliner. This difference will become more and more important as time goes on. Mass air travel will decline.