Josh Martin

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Business Daily · Follow the Money: What's driving up the cost of flying? · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

But now this is where the add ons start.

It wants fifty one dollars for a package that includes an overhead cabin bag and it will let you select a regular seat.

And that fee also includes something called priority boarding.

You can get ahead of the crowd and sit in the plane for longer, and the convenience of checking in online a month in advance.

Not sure about that benefit, but that's that's what you get for the package.

But they're also offering other add-ons such as disruption assistance, where you know the they say for $20 if there's a short notice delay or cancellation, they'll help you through the process.

Although they should be doing that anyway because of EU aviation law.

So I'm going to

decline that option.

I'll also decline the twenty dollar add-on to check in at the airport with a person.

But I will add a yes, I'll add a check bag that's an extra forty dollars.

And also need to budget for, you know, knowing me once on board a four hour flight I'm probably gonna want a snack and a drink.

So call that about fifteen dollars.

We get through all of that and just by saying yes to most

Not all, but most of the add ons, that flight price has already doubled.

Yeah, I mean in the end, uh the battle between Turkish Airlines and what I thought was a cheap fare with Wizir, there was about ten dollars in it.

And I didn't even say yes to every single ancillary revenue offer from Wizier.

They were offering insurance, automated online check in, priority security lane access.

If I had done that and literally said yes to every single offer I was given, it would have easily cost me another fifty.

dollars on top of that, putting it well ahead of Turkish Airlines.

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