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These fees are not going anywhere. they make the airlines a lot of money. more than six billion dollars last year and that's just the reservation change fees and baggage fees. the fees for the better seat on the front of the plane and the food and entertainment they don't have to report those fees. >> neil: this is stuff just recently added. >> certainly -- if you're flying for the first time in a while in summer of 2013. he reservation change fee has gone up. so looking at what used to be $150 to change your ticket. it's now 200, and that's on a one-way ticket. so you're looking at family of ...

Americans spent in restaurants and bars in april. that's according to early census numbers and we're not necessarily seeing more americans go out to eat and what we're seeing is the americans are spending more and they're spending more on things like liquor. more drinking. >> more drinking. for whatever the reason. what about the record year for baggage fees? is this the new norm? >> i don't think we're going to see airlines taking away those fees like reservation change fees, baggage fees, more leg room fees and we're not going to see those go anywhere any time soon in 2012, and airlines cloc...

>> 25 here, 50 there. i know. >> 6 billion. over 6 billion in baggage and reservation change fees last year and that is the highest amount since those fees became common and five years ago and if you think it's going to let up because you know, we're all thinking well surely, they've got their money now, think again because it's all thanks to those extra fees that the industry is back in the black and we're use to id and you're going to pay more this summer. they've all recently raised those fees for changing a domestic flight reservation from $150 to $200. i just mentioned delta. they again t...

this would be the case an chairman payne's press conference and so it would prove, suzanne. >> how much outrage is there over this, the fanct that nothig is going to change here? >> reporter: we sampled a few opinions earlier in the week and we have to say most people out on the course are here basically to take in the spectacular surroundings and follow the top names in world golf, tiger woods and rory mcilroy. this is not an agenda on the top of every patrons' lips but there's been a lot of pubic outcry. we've been hearing on cnn throughout the week. one of the protesters in 2003 w...