With many airlines charging fees for extras such as seat selection, checked baggage and more – depending on the fare category you choose – the cost of air travel can end up being steeper than it appears at first glance.
" 'Junk fees' a delicious turn of phrase that encompasses a bunch of different types of fees that I think really irk people," said Scott Keyes, founder of, formerly known as Scott's Cheap Flights. While he said the phrasing is"a little bit of Rorschach test" for the types of extra charges that most annoy an individual traveler, in an air travel context, it could include costs like seat selection fees, which may not be clear to customers when they first see a fare.
Biden has specifically called airlines out for charging families to sit together, though Keyes said there are already ways around that. Even if travelers book a basic economy ticket, which does not typically include the option to choose seats in advance, he said most of the time airlines will assign families seats together.
The ways fees manifest on a passenger's bill differ from airline to airline – and even within airlines – Keyes said. Frontier Airlines, for instance, makes much of its per-passenger revenue from fees rather than airfare, while Southwest Airlines prides itself on having"basically no fees," he said. Most others are somewhere between the two.For starters, having an initial"lower headline price" makes air travel look cheaper, Keyes said.
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