Can’t pay airline fees? Go to jail (TravelMole.com)
November 9, 2011
If you can’t pay airline fees, there can be drastic penalties. You might even have to stay overnight. Or for eight nights, as one poor traveler did in a widely publicized incident.
The victim: Teri Weissinger.
She says she only wanted a “fresh start” when spending her last dollars on an airline ticket to take her from San Francisco to Idaho, where she was planning to start a new life, news accounts say.
“Unfortunately, Weissinger didn’t account for the added expense of baggage fees and when she couldn’t pay the $60 US Airways required to transport her two checked bags, it set off a chain of events that led to her being trapped in the airport for eight days,” says Smarter Travel.
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