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Billions in Airline Fees – No Laughing Matter

2011-10-28 by Phil Butler

Extra baggage, the fees we get charged

An article by Hugo Martin in the Los Angeles Times yesterday reveals still more bad PR and just bad business for airlines. At a time when any industry can well afford negative news, over $1.5 billion in nickel – dime baggage charges and reservation fees makes America’s biggest air carriers seem anything but transparent.

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IBM Promises to Squeeze 40 Percent More Bags into Schiphol

2011-03-19 by Aleksandr Shatskih

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Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.  It is a simple concept but one that IBM hopes to work around using its technology to squeeze more baggage into an already overflowing Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. Schiphol is one of the top airports in the world (the 5th largest in Europe), handling […]

Tags: Amsterdam, baggage, Europe, handling, IBM, Schiphol airport, software, transport

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