with extra leg room or one with an empty seat next to it. some earnings are renting apple ipads, preloaded with movies or paying to get a first class hot meal in coach. some airlines let you skip baggage claim and have the luggage delivered to your home for a 30-dollars fee. for passengers the a la carte menu allows them to buy luxuries they want without paying for others they don t need. for airlines the fees help keep them profitable. airlines operate on a narrow profit margin and the fares don t cover their cost. the average fare increased just over 3% for the past decade but cost of jet fuel nearly tripled. hiking fares deters air travel so the airlines are adding optional fees and they are not subject to the 7.5% excise tax on base fares so it costs passengers less than raising fares while giving them choices. the choices are offered in many ways, not just during booking but in follow-up emails, check-in and even on the mobile
interest in disposing of our disposable income, this would be the effect that would be showing up, and it did. its earnings beating expectations by 10-1/2 million. a tad higher than expect. these media companies we tend to report them not only because it s where we live but it s because, well, where you live. well, airplane repairs leaving fliers in a fix because if hiking fares don t shock you, this might. a new government report deeming the fas oversight of repair stations ineffective. repair shops couldn t account for tools or prove work done was correct. to tom kurtis on whether that will leave us safe. when i hear this, it worries me. should i be worried? you should be worried as a passenger. this is an example of the system perhaps having a problem that could lead to an accident later.
retirement, they have to go and there are fewer people behind them. and this coming amid a very busy airline season and already been hiking fares, charles, not a great combo. anytime the news headlines out of the airlines is not great news for travelers. means higher fees. neil: unless you have a flu outbreak on a plane. higher fees. and they nickel and dime you. we ve gone over it, the whole nickel and dime aspect. park a bunch of planes, higher fees. cram in the chairs, higher fees, it s awful, but it is what it is, but means that everyone watching the show be prepared to pay higher fees. neil: is that the case? absolutely, but suck it up. it s not public transportation, it s the airline s business. and there s a heartless streak in you. she s right on this one. the remaining airlines that we have left to stay healthy. neil: you make boo boo to
gains. they claim this video shows a police station they took over. cnn cannot independently verify the authenticity of this video, however. opening statements got under way today in the drew peterson trial. now, he is the former chicago area police officer accused of murdering his third wife, she was found dead in the bathtub in 2004. her death was treated as an accident. but peterson came under scrutiny when his fourth wife stacy disappeared. the trial is expected to last about a month. now to what is going on in the olympics. okay. we got a spoiler alert, though. so put your tv on mute if you don t want to know who the winner is. the u.s. women s gymnastics team now in first place in the finals after the first rotation. they just did the vault. now, if the u.s. wins, it is going to be their first team gold since 1996. we ll watch this one and keep you posted. now, in swimming, the women s 200 meter freestyle happens in about two hours. 17-year-old american missy frankl
it does look pretty good, doesn t it? when we come back here, we re back here, call it the boston tea party and i m not talking about the american revolution, i m talking about the city s cash strapped public authority talking about naming rights to its train stations and looking to raise 150 million bucks. and coming as nearly 80% of stations are hiking fares to make up for a lack of cash. charles, you see this as a good idea. we should keep this. it s a good idea, whoever thought of it should get a pat on the back. they ll spend every nickel of it. if they brought in 150 billion they would spend every nickel and the transportation