✈️ Travel 6d ago · Gary Leff

Airports Won’t Let Prices Rise — So They Tell Vendors To Add Surcharges

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Airports Won’t Let Prices Rise — So They Tell Vendors To Add Surcharges
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Airports say concessionaires cannot simply raise listed prices, so instead travelers get hit with a growing list of surcharges that do the same thing more opaquely. The result is a strange bit of airport economics: prices look artificially lower than they really are, wage and benefit costs get broken out as separate fees, and workers may not even come out ahead because those extra charges can reduce what customers leave as tips.

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