Airlines Say "Oxygen Ain't Free - Gotta Pay To Breathe"

At least this is what I assume we'll see someday as the airlines continue to layer on fees for almost everything. The latest is JetBlue that is charging $7 for a pillow and blanket set.

From the title one would assume that I'm against what some might construe as predatory pricing. In this case they'd be wrong. The truth is I haven't used a pillow or blanket on a domestic flight in a long time. Decades as a matter of fact. Having to snuggle up to a pillow that someone was coughing into a few flights back for some reason never really appealed to me. If and when I ever want a pillow on a flight in this country I'd be more than happy to pay for a nice fresh one. And you get to keep it too! What a great gifts for your nieces and nephews when you visit!

There's also the fact that the purchaser of said slumber time gear also gets a $5 off coupon from Bed, Bath, and Beyond. So in one sense one really only pays a total of two dollars for that minty fresh and single use only pillow. On the other hand, you have to go to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and that store always scares me. For good reason, I'm convinced that they have the inventory in there piled so high that I'm sure to be crushed when a thirty foot high display of guava scented candles collapses on me.

So to the airlines, if you want to charge for something that was once free, I'm all for it as long as the resulting product is better than what I would have received in the past.