Checking your suitcase now costs more than your airline ticket. It’s time for this to end.
There’s a new milestone in American air travel: checking your suitcase may now cost more than your seat.
CARRY-ON LUGGAGE
Bag fees just hit $50. At what point do you stop checking luggage?
U.S. airlines this week raised their checked baggage fees to levels that would have seemed like a parody just a few years ago.
A wheel good investment: Here’s the luggage that survived 350 days on the road
Some travel disasters start small. It’s a wobbly wheel you hardly notice until you’re double-timing it through the terminal and your carry-on suddenly feels like you’re dragging an anchor.
Passengers are arriving too early for their flights. They should do this instead.
Have you started arriving at the airport gate early? Like, way early? Mary Vogel has. For her upcoming flight from Chicago to Paris, she’ll get to the terminal more than three hours before her scheduled departure.
Airlines are getting stricter about carry-on luggage. Here’s what to do about it.
Are airlines tightening their carry-on luggage rules? Passengers like Eddie Cannon believe the answer is “yes.”