Even when you fly via cheap airplane tickets or cheap vacation packages, certain airline perks remain available depending on which airline you fly.
Select airlines have refused to join the airline fee frenzy and are offering better customer service, fewer extra charges, and even more creature comforts than most of their competition for free.
The following are free perks still being offered by some airlines:
Air Canada, Alaska, Emirates, Lufthansa, Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic do not charge coach class passengers to watch videos while in the air. Air Canada has recently expanded its movie offerings, doubling the number of on demand available movies on both international and domestic flights.
JetBlue allows every passenger to check one bag free on each flight.
JetBlue will start offering free Wi-Fi on flights in 2013. To ensure speedy page load time it has partnered with a company that provides satellite broadband services. Norwegian offers complimentary Wi-Fi on most of its planes.
Air France, Alaska (only on flights operated by Horizon Air and SkyWest), British Airways, Hawaiian, Porter, and Virgin Atlantic give coach class passengers free alcoholic beverages. Air France even offers complimentary Champagne on long distance international flights.
JetBlue offers free live TV, steaming 36 channels of DirecTV, including CNN, Food Network, History Channel, Lifetime, and The Weather Channel on all of its flights. Virgin America also offers free live satellite TV via its Red entertainment program.
Delta, Hawaiian, JetBlue and Vision offer free snacks.
Air Berlin, Air Canada, and Hawaiian offer free blankets in cabins.
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