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.
UNBUNDLING
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.
As airline revenue from extra fees increases, so does consumer hire
Airlines sure do love their fees, don’t they?
A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that domestic air carriers collected $7.1 billion in revenue from checked-bag and changed-reservations fees last year. The extra charges are helping the industry earn record profits.
Transportation department taps brakes on proposed regulation requiring disclosure of airline fees
The U.S. Transportation Department surprised the travel world last month by suspending the creation of an important new consumer-protection regulation.
The travel industry is lying about fees — and now it’s gone too far
It’s more than a decade since the airline industry, led by a then-ailing American Airlines, quietly stripped the ability to check your first bag at no extra cost from the price of an airline ticket — an act given the antiseptic name “unbundling.”
“Airlines continue to insult my intelligence”
Don’t look now, but the airline industry is getting rich off fees. Very rich.
Spirit Airlines to charge for carry-on bags
Calling it the “next phase” of unbundling, Spirit Airlines a few hours ago announced that it would begin charging passengers for carry-on luggage. Seriously.