Allison Pohle
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first heard Apr 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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And unlike the upcharge for a first class plane ticket or something like extra guacamole, many of these fees do not get you anything in return.
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First, they're going to need to stay patient because the government needs to define exactly what a junk fee is.
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So whether or not a baggage fee is exactly a junk fee is up for debate because the airlines will argue that it is getting you something in return.
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It's getting you your baggage checked, whereas other people might say, well, shouldn't that be included in the cost of my plane ticket?
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but the president wants to target additional fees that airlines charge for seating assignments and the government is especially worried about families having to pay these seat fees so that they can sit with their children so if these are regulated it's possible that those fees could go away though it's a long shot or another option is that they'd be displayed more transparently
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Yeah, you can think of resort fees as kind of a catch-all term for different hotel charges because they aren't just limited to high-end resorts.
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So budget hotels that rent rooms by the week or the month can charge $2 or $3 a night for safe fees, and those are meant to cover the hypothetical use of a safe in the room.
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That's the same concept as a resort fee.
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And I spoke to Lauren Wolf, who is an attorney at Travelers United, which is an advocacy group.
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And she said those fees are just made-up junk hotel fees so the hotels can lie about the advertised price of a room.
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And this issue has come up before.
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So back in 2019, lawmakers introduced a bipartisan house bill that would require hotels and short-term rentals to list their upfront costs, including all fees.
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But that bill didn't progress.
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They could.
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What the government is arguing now is that essentially companies are competing with each other on hidden costs.
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So they are trying to display a low price for a room, for example, and then once someone clicks all the way through and is about to book, then that's when all of these extra charges come on.
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So in theory, the companies are competing on these extra costs that aren't displayed.
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So yes, the base price could be raised to account for the lost fee revenue.
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but the prices could also become more transparent in theory.
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Yes.
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