Buying a plane ticket in 2023 means opening yourself up to a barrage of increasingly creative fees. Passengers must be prepared to pay to carry on a bag, pay to check a bag, pay more if their bag weighs too much, pay if they get hungry on board, and pay to print out a boarding pass. To make the situation more galling, these fees can sometimes add up to more than the cost of the flight itself.
Faced with this rising wave of creative fees, travelers are getting creative themselves and taking matters into their own hands—or rather, their own pouches.
