Travel Headline of the Day: ‘Airlines May Start Treating Passengers as ‘Freight’’

Nope, I didn’t come across this one in The Onion. Instead it caps a story from Bloomberg, about the increasingly desperate lengths to which the airlines might go to recoup spiraling fuel costs.

Apparently, cargo-style payments by weight are not out of the question. “You listen to the airline CEOs, and nothing is beyond their imagination,” an industry spokesman said in the article. “They have already begun to think exotically. Nothing is not under the microscope.’‘

Really, nothing is out of bounds? Not even this?

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