US Airways raising baggage fees and probably consumer hostility
August 29, 2009
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Hey, I remember when you could actually get food and water on a cross-country flight. Now I refuse to fly unless I absolutely must, for business. Anything else, I drive, go by train, or stay home. Screw the airlines; they damn sure screw me every time I have to fly.
Airline greed has cooked the goose who laid the golden egg. Indeed, they have killed us off. I no longer fly at all. The reason is that I have ‘aerotoxic syndrome’, a condition that was first mentioned in academic papers in 1977. The airlines still say that it doesn’t exist despite numerous studies that say to the contrary. (see the Aerotoxic Association website for details)
As for baggage fees – my husband was a pilot and witnessed how baggage gets thrown around – one case landed on the tarmac and burst open. He kindly gathered the belongings and put them back in the case – not that that was his job. He just couldn’t stand the cynicism at his airline.
Big Daddy
I spent in excess of $300,000.00 training my son to fly and he is now captain on US Airways. For my efforts I received a few free rides from the airlines which is now taken away….. in addition to loosing my free ride, now I must pay for fare plus luggage. Listen folk, parents are not going to spend the money to train their children to fly for the airlines and then get treated like this and then have pilots take a great pay cut. In the future the airlines will have spend the money for training and very few will ever make it to the airlines. Cost will increase and quality will go down and airlines will be second class travel.
You may not like that you have to pay to check your bags, but it makes sense. The airlines are losing money in general. Businesses cannot continually operate at a loss. They are just looking for new revenue streams. Charging for bags is a good idea. Checking bags actually costs the airlines more money. Not only do the bags have to be handled, but the added weight of each bag increases the fuel useage. Airlines spend something like 35-40% of there operating budget on fuel.