Nightly News | November 03, 2011
Aisle seat? It’ll cost you
Airlines are moving toward charging seating fees, which would allow them to charge more money for passengers who wish to avoid a middle seat. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Well, the day may be coming when the airlines ask us to put album covers on our hands and flap our arms up and down to help get the plane to the destination, because they now charge for everything but actually flying the plane. Today's Wall Street Journal published a takedown of the new trend toward seat fees. Just to get a preferable seat in coach, up to a third of all seats are now in some sort of preferred seat category allowing them to charge more money so you can avoid, say, a middle seat.