Airline Fees

FILE - In this March 28, 2012, file photo, luggage waits to be run through the baggage system for testing in the new Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. International Terminal at Atlanta's airport. U.S. airlines collected more than $6 billion in baggage and reservation change fees from passengers in 2012, the highest amount since the fees became common five years ago. These fees along with charges for boarding early or picking prime seats have helped return the industry to profitability. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Frontier Airlines

Mesa City manager Chris Brady speaks during an announcement of Frontier Airlines offering service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Monday, August 6, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines vice-president Greg Aretakis,left, shakes hands with Mesa City manager Chris Brady during an announcement of Frontier Airlines offering service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Monday, August 6, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines vice-president Greg Aretakis,left, speaks during an announcement of Frontier Airlines offering service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Monday, August 6, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

Frontier Airlines

Mesa City manager Chris Brady speaks during an announcement of Frontier Airlines offering service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Monday, August 6, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

Frontier Airlines

Mesa City manager Chris Brady speaks during an announcement of Frontier Airlines offering service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Monday, August 6, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

Frontier Airlines

Gilbert Mayor John Lewis speaks during an announcement of Frontier Airlines offering service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Monday, August 6, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines vice-president Greg Aretakis,left, speaks while Mesa City manager Chris Brady looks on during an announcement of Frontier Airlines offering service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Monday, August 6, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

Frontier Airlines

Mesa City manager Chris Brady speaks during an announcement of Frontier Airlines offering service to the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Monday, August 6, 2012. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

Frontier Airlines

Spirit Airlines

Milt Fort, marketing director for the Mesa Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, speaks during an announcement that Spirit Airlines is adding nonstop flights to Chicago from the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. [Garin Groff/Tribune]

Spirit Airlines

Airline safety

In this Dec. 23, 2011 file photo, travelers check their luggage at a United Airlines express check-in area at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Boarding an airplane has never been safer. In the last 10 years, there were 153 fatalities in U.S. airline crashes. That's 2 deaths for every 100 million passengers and the safest decade in the country�s aviation history, according to an Associated Press analysis of government accident data. [Nam Y. Huh/AP file]

Southwest Airlines

In this Jan. 20, 2011 photo a Southwest Airlines jet takes off at Boston's Logan International Airport. Southwest Airlines has joined a sweeping increase of $10 in the price of many domestic round-trip airfares Monday, March 7, citing the need to offset high fuel prices.(AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Airline’s bid on rise for Delta

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:44 am

Tempe-based US Airways was vague Monday in response to a published report that it is upping its offer for Delta Air Lines by another $1 billion in cash as the Feb. 1 deadline for creditors to budge into action looms.

Scottsdale Council grounds airline’s proposal

Wednesday, November 2, 2005 5:28 am

Allowing a commuter airline to launch from Scottsdale Airport would flood neighborhoods in the flight path with jet engine noise and drain value from their property, dozens of residents argued on Tuesday night.

Scottsdale Council grounds airline’s proposal

Wednesday, November 2, 2005 10:15 am

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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2012 fiile photo an aircraft flies over Frankfurt, central Germany. The global airline industry says, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, it sees a modest improvement in its financial outlook for 2013, expecting profits of US dollar 10.6 billion based on more passengers and cargo handled. The International Air Transport Association credits "a backdrop of improved optimism for global economic prospects" for raising expectations above its previous forecast of $8.4 billion in profits for this year. But the Geneva-based IATA cautioned that fuel prices are growing too. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Airline Safety Law

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2009, file photo, the wreckage of Continental flight 3407 lies amid smoke at the scene after crashing into a suburban Buffalo home and erupting into flames, killing all 48 people aboard and at least one person on the ground, according to authorities. Faced with substantial industry opposition, federal regulators are struggling to implement a sweeping aviation safety law enacted in the wake of the last fatal U.S. airline crash nearly four years ago, according to a report by a government watchdog. The Federal Aviation Administration is experiencing lengthy delays in putting in place rules required by the law to increase the amount of experience necessary to be an airline pilot, provide more realistic pilot training and create a program where experienced captains mentor less experienced first officers, according to the report by the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General. (AP Photo/Dave Sherman, File)

Airline Dress Codes

In this Spring 2012 photo provided by a woman identified as Avital and made available to the blog Jezebel, Avital poses for a picture at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, showing what she was wearing after she says a Southwest Airlines gate agent approached her, alleging she was showing too much cleavage. Airlines give many reasons for refusing to let you board, but none are stirring as much debate in 2012 than how a passenger is dressed. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Avital)

Airline Bag Fees

Christian Noriega of Hayward Calif., with an umbrella on his side checks in at the Philadelphia International Airport Monday, June 13, 2011, in Philadelphia. Noriega said he spent about $163 to check three bags with American Airlines. The government says that airlines collected $3.4 billion in baggage fees last year, up 24 percent from 2009.( AP Photo/Matt Rourke)