Airlines

As airline profits soar, hidden fees and other Gotchas are still OK, administration says

By faircontracts / December 12, 2017 / Comments Off on As airline profits soar, hidden fees and other Gotchas are still OK, administration says

“Passengers still have to go searching for airfares with a calculator in one hand, and that’s how the airlines like it.” — Chrisopher Elliot of consumer travel site Elliot.org. The Trump administration just helped kill some price tags.  That’s bad for consumers, but good for huge, monopolistic airlines. The main thesis behind Gotcha Capitalism is…

Read More

Nader: Airlines Keep Billions From Confiscatory Fine Print on Airline Tickets

By theresa / April 16, 2012 / Comments Off on Nader: Airlines Keep Billions From Confiscatory Fine Print on Airline Tickets

Fair Contracts and Ralph Nader made a Freedom of Information Act Request to find out how much money the major airlines keep from those unused, nonrefundable tickets people don’t or can’t or forget to use within the one-year expiration limit set by the airlines in their fine print contracts of carriage terms. It turns out…

Read More

Bob Sullivan, MSNBC: “Airlines secretly cash in on unused tickets”

By theresa / February 10, 2012 / Comments Off on Bob Sullivan, MSNBC: “Airlines secretly cash in on unused tickets”

MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan reports on Nader’s efforts to discover airline revenues from unused tickets. http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/10/10366774-airlines-secretly-cash-in-on-unused-tickets

Read More

Ralph Nader Asks Airline CEOs About Windfall Profits for Unused Passenger Tickets

By theresa / December 22, 2011 / Comments Off on Ralph Nader Asks Airline CEOs About Windfall Profits for Unused Passenger Tickets

Have you ever not used a non refundable airline ticket and then either forgot to use it within a year or were reluctant to pay a $100-$150 change fee to be able to use it? Ralph Nader asks the CEOs of major airlines to reveal the data of how much they have pocketed from these…

Read More

Ralph Nader Takes on Airline Refunds; Touts Small Claims Courts for Consumers

By theresa / July 24, 2011 / Comments Off on Ralph Nader Takes on Airline Refunds; Touts Small Claims Courts for Consumers

The New York Times reports this fair contract win by Ralph Nader to object to the fine print in airlines refunds.  Nader recommends small claims courts for consumers.  See:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/your-money/ralph-nader-and-the-airline-refund-the-haggler.html    

Read More