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Low-Cost Airlines Aren't Getting Much Traction Upselling Hotels Through Their Sites

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Rafat Ali

Photo Caption: The Southwest.com hotels booking section gets very low traffic. 

Skift Take

The big question for these low cost airlines: Can they ever become effective at diversification beyond their own main product. How many people actually end up buying these services beyond air?

Low-cost airlines are continuing their inevitable march across the world, and as part of that they have led a movement of ancillary fee-based services that are now driving record profits for these companies. Among them are baggage fees, on-board food, seat assignments, in-flight Wi-Fi and many others. And while many of them are being now being sold and paid online as part of the book

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