CAL/DAL raise checked bag fees

[jonjuan]

http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/content/travel/baggage/checkbag.aspx

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/12/delta.baggage.fees/index.html

 

[GuppyWN]

Sounds good to me. The higher the better.

Gup

 

[Rickindfw]

Why do they hate your bags?

 

[CopilotDoug]

Hopefully this will help steer customers away from Orbitz, et al.

 

[ProFracPilot]

I sat in row 43 on a DL 757 out of ATL yesterday, watching the last half of those boarding attempt to cram their baggage into non-existent overhead bin space. We used up 30 mins of an already ridiculously padded departure time as the FA's and CSR's gate checked multiple bags.

This latest baggage rate increase is going to work out well.

 

[jonjuan]

Not sure why they don't pay a few people $10 bucks an hour at the busier airports to screen baggage prior to security screening. The ROI has to be huge as these boarding delays would be significantly reduced. Aircrews and gate agents shouldn't be doing this.

 

[veneratio]

Ohh, I thought they raised the check bag fees so that the proceeds from the money could go so we can get pay raises? Where is the money going to?

 

[LearLove]

embarrassing - just charge a price that covers one checked bag.

 

[AWACoff]

embarrassing - just charge a price that covers one checked bag.

Customers don't want that. It's that simple.

Think of how stupid the average person is and then realize that half of all people are more stupid than that (thank you George Carlin).

People go to Orbitz/Travelocity/etc. and shop purely by the lowest price. They are too stupid/lazy/etc. to check the fine print. Hence the reason why airlines charge extra for everything.

 

[thor2j]

Sounds good to me. The higher the better.

Gup

Next they'll be charging to board first......oh wait....