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Record airline fees: Estimated $49.9 billion

1:11 PM ET Tue, 4 Nov 2014

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reports on record revenue being produced by airline fees. Seth Kaplan, Airline Weekly, provides insight into the soaring extra fees.

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