The term "leisure traveler". As if everyone who doesn't travel for business somehow has loads of disposable income to spent jaunting around the world, or the option not to travel.
I definitely don't have loads of money. And I have to scrimp and save to take trips. I eat A LOT of cheap pasta. I don't go to movies any more except on rare occasions. Actually I don't do much of anything by way of entertainment. All of my "disposable income," in fact, is spent on travel. Either to and fro work, visiting my boyfriend, or seeing family and friends.
Sure I could not travel. But then I would never see my family, never spend time with my friends, never have anything worth calling a life. I don't understand how business travelers suddenly became the ones burdened with the cost of travel when it's their companies paying for it. And the leisure traveler, as it were, is the one that should pay the extra money because airlines don't know how to balance their budgets.
Charging to check a second bag. I swear, soon they'll be charging us extra if we choose to wear clothes on the plane...or use the bathroom...or breathe.
We need a revolution, people. Against airlines, and — while we're at it — against crazy high gas prices. I can't even afford to be alive anymore.
April 22, 2008
Airlines to Charge for Second Bag
By MARTHA C. WHITE
The New York Times
Five of the six major airlines in the United States plan to start charging coach passengers as much as $25 next month to check a second bag, the latest move in their quest to offset high fuel prices.
But while the airlines, and even some industry specialists, say they expect the fees will primarily affect leisure travelers, business travelers beg to differ.
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