The Week contest - Airline fees

Welcome to "What Next?", The Week's contest about current events.

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Last week's question: A new airline, Samoa Air, is charging passengers by their weight; the CEO claims this is "the concept of the future" since heavier passengers use more fuel. Please come up with the next innovative way for airlines to get more money out of customers.

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Results:

THE WINNER: Install subway straps and charge extra for seats

Pam Barlow, Pequannock, N.J.

SECOND PLACE: Safe-landing fee

Mark Stine, Lake Orion, Mich.

THIRD PLACE: Turn passengers upside down and shake them

Alan Parven, Commerce Township, Mich.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Allow free cellphone use, then charge huge fees for sound-canceling earphones

Carla E Holtz, Stanardsville, Va.

Sell your lost luggage back to you. After all, finders keepers...

Jaime LaMere, Torrington, Conn.

Coin operated oxygen masks

Jeffrey Heady, Louisville

In-flight casino

Ujjal Kohli, Saratoga, Calif.

Pay per breath, with optional frequent breather program

David Scott, Del Mar, Calif.

Per minute fee for using the bathroom

Brian Lexvold, Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Coin-operated window shades (pay per view)

Paul Witte, New Hope, Pa.

Pregnant women count as two passengers

Greig Fields, Katonah, N.Y.

Charge per individual ice cube in drinks

Ken Kellam III, Dallas

Add a charge to call the flight attendant

Raven Deerwater, Mendocino, Calif.

Window slide fee

Jim McMullan, Wofford Heights, Calif.

Fee for using overhead storage bin

Kenneth R. Updegrove, Cedaredge, Colo.

Per-minute reading light charge

Joseph Smith, Huntersville, N.C.

Overhead compartment now sold as sleeping cabin

Greg Hinson, Scranton, Pa.

Extra fee for a seat in a child-free section

Sarah Johnsen, Hartford, Wis.

Charge tuition for in-flight safety instructions

Cheryl Coyle, Lebanon, Pa.

Reclining seat fee

John Crouse, Bethel, Conn.

Purchase the right to un-recline the seat in front of you.

Tyson Mohr, Bloomington, Ill.

All carry on money will be subject to a 20 percent boarding fee

William D. Pezzulich, Tampa

Emotional baggage fee

Michael Egan, Cincinnati

De-planing fee

Jim Ridge, Spring Green, Wis.

Sell souvenir passenger security-screening photos

Molly Tessler, Ardsley, N.Y.

Cut the pretense and just rob passengers at gunpoint

Diane Hoover, Mukilteo, Wash.