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bags if you fly spirit air and fees to book your flight by phone and fees to board early or leg room or eye seat and each fees to change reservations and can go as high as $150. families in particular need to be careful about how much baggage they are checking, making sure it s not going over the limit in order to not, you know, have a budget buster at the airline ticket counter. reporter: the airlines insist the $8 billion they earned in fees last year, are finally helping them turn a profit after ten years of losses. here is the key. if you don t check a bag, you re not paying anything more. if you don t eat on board an airplane, you re not paying anything more. if you don t care where you sit on board an airplane, you re not paying anything more. you re actually paying less. reporter: but congress and a lot of travelers complain it s not always easy to anticipate the fees before you head to the airport. back in atlanta, ken schaefer had had enough! i m not going to do that