Not to knock getting cheap airfare tickets by any means, getting good deals on something is always great, and why pay more when you don’t have to. However, when you buy cheap airfare tickets online they really should tell you the entire price, not the price before all of the fees. This is a common gimmick by many online travel websites to lure in consumers with what seems like really cheap airfare tickets. But when you get to the online checkout counter they tack on all the other fees, fees that should have been included in the price that was quoted to you when you first looked at these so-called cheap airfare tickets.

This tactic fondly reminds me of the Ticket Master fiasco. You know where you are quoted one price on tickets and when you go to checkout there is an email fee, an electronic fee, a processing fee, a security fee, and a ton of other fees that really rev up the prices. The same is true for cheap airfare tickets found on many travel websites—add about thirty bucks on to the quoted price and you will have a good idea of what the final price will be.