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Airlines collect $1.38 billion in baggage, reservation fees

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The nation’s largest airlines collected $1.38 billion for charging passengers to check baggage and change reservations in the first three months of the year, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported Tuesday.

The total represents a 4% increase over the $1.32 billion that the same airlines collected in the same period in 2010.

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Airlines are only required to itemize for the federal government fees collected from passengers to check luggage and change reservations.

But a law proposed in July by the Department of Transportation would require airlines to report 16 additional fees, including charges for food, drinks, entertainment, pet transportation, pillows, blankets and on-board Internet access.

The federal agency is accepting public comment on the proposed rule at www.regulations.com.

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-- Hugo Martin

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