For years, airlines pocketed your luggage fee even when they lost your bags, until the government stepped in.
Apart from lowering costs and fares, budget airlines have unbundled the old air-travel experience: now, if you want food and drink, you pay, and the airline pockets a healthy profit for every such transaction.Another technical development, however, actually helps network carriers.
Dan McIntyre, 67, of Granite City, Ill., who retired from T.W.A. in 1992 as a ground service employee after 40 years with the airline, pocketed his first swizzle stick in 1952.
Mr. Brooks considers golf course design, the contents of the Sky Mall catalog found in airline seat pockets, listings of most popular baby names.
Airlines can pocket the difference in lower running costs.The driver for this change is the increasing demand for tuned-down wide-bodies in Asia, now the fastest-growing part of the market.
Blumenthal said that the idea behind the company came when a friend left a $700 pair of glasses in an airline seat pocket.
The agency has not collected more than $300 million in taxes (money the airlines have mostly pocketed).
Airline seat-back pockets have become repositories for toenail clippings, dirty diapers and old food, among other things.
The production, by Ms. Manich, with costumes by Carla Bellisio, is updated to a quirky version of the present: Nero and his courtiers wear stylized business suits (sometimes with sashes); soldiers wear odd uniforms of no identifiable country, with insignia that look borrowed from airline-pilot breast pockets.
Airlines around the world pocketed an estimated $21.46 billion in revenue from the fees for those services last year, according to research by Amadeus and IdeaWorks.
The money doesn't annoy me, though – it's the difficulty of squeezing them into the tiny little elasticised pockets behind airline seats into which we have to cram our necessaries".
