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Airline profits for 2010 were $2.5b in the black. http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/06/airline_profits http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2010/

• ojbyrne 16y ago
  Which was probably all due to baggage fees. In fact that graph shows $2.5 billion in baggage fees charged in the US alone (your articles shows $2.5 billion worldwide, and I bet most of it is in the Asia-Pacific region). Airlines had been steadily losing money from 9/11 up to 2009, except for a few low-cost carriers.