Airline execs grilled over rising fees that make passengers ‘walking piggy banks to be shaken down’

The nation’s top airlines executives were grilled on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for larding on fees for checked luggage, assigned seats and other perks to extract more money from passengers. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chairs the Senate’s investigative subcommittee, hauled in top brass from American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Spirit Airlines and...