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When travelers complain about the rise of airline fees, ysl shoes sale the carriers rolling out the fees like to point out that the charges are strictly optional. No one’s being forced to pay for anything they don’t want, they say. Nonetheless, it’s the travelers who don’t pay up who often pay a price for all sorts of perfectly “voluntary” airline fees.

Here’s a look at some of the ways airline travel is getting yves saint laurent outlet worse for passengers who don’t want to pay extra fees—and sometimes even for passengers who do cough up extra cash as well:

Extra Legroom
In theory, no traveler should mind the fact that airline passengers can pay extra to sit in a row with XL legroom. But where do you think that extra legroom comes from? For the most part, seats with extra legroom come directly at the expense of the comfort of the rest of the seats in the plane. A decade ago, the industry standard was 32 inches between seats. Now, the standard is 31 inches, and regular seats on carriers such as Spirit Airlines come with a cramped 28 inches of leg space. At the same time that airlines are shrinking leg space in most rows, they’re adding space to other rows that they can sell at a premium. The result is travelers are getting squeezed either literally (with less legroom) or figuratively (via extra legroom fees).

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The Boston Globe reported that JetBlue, which used to be known for having the most comfortable coach classes of all domestic carriers, expects to take yves saint laurent shoes  in $150 million in its expanded extra-legroom program. As airlines add more premium rows with extra legroom, it not only means that legroom shrinks for everyone else, but also that there are fewer rows available that don’t require an additional fee.

Sitting Together
Similarly, on the surface, it seems like no one gets hurt simply because some travelers are willing to pay an extra fee to reserve specific seats on the plane. But of course, yves saint laurent 2012 if most fliers pay for such “privileges,” it’s the travelers who don’t who get stuck with the worst seats—usually, middle seats, possibly rows away from friends and family.