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I booked a flight recently and then found a way to reduce my trip by one stop. However, the airline wanted $150 in change fees. That annoyed me since the trip is a month away and it would cost a few milli-cents of computer power for the airline computers to make the change. So, I did some Googling and discovered that change fees are a huge profit center:

"...in 2011 (the last full year for which statistics are available), US airlines collected nearly $3.4 billion in baggage fees while reservation change and cancellation fees in 2011 totaled over $2.38 billion."

From: http://thepointsguy.com/2013/05/higher-airline-change-fees-are-here-to-stay-united-us-airways-and-delta-all-raise-prices/[^]

I'm amazed. (I kept the old three-stop flight and told my daughter that it was just part of the adventure.)
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GeneralInteresting piece on the fallibility of science. Pin
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