Beware --Airfare may not include checking luggage!!  

They already have a weight restriction on luggage. At least one piece should be included with the cost of the airfare.

And if I have to pay $15 if my luggage weights 10 pounds or 40 pounds then I don't think it'll make a difference.

It doesn't say weight. Before I think it was limited to 45 pounds per piece. If I am paying $15 for 45 pounds or 10 pounds -- I don't see the incentive. They already charge extra, I think it is $50 if you go over the 45 pounds.

I didn't mean the weight of the lagguage when I made that reference. Ever since I took my first plane ride they charged if baggage was over the weight limit. The point I made was that they will start charging by people's body weight. 100 pound person pays $x, 120 pound person pays $y more, and so on...

No, I don't know Kelly, but if their is a weight limit, then all her expert packing is for naught.

Can you see going to a fine restaurant and ordering food from the menu, then they add on an extra fee to sit down. Or you go to play golf and rent a cart, then they charge extra for putting the clubs in the cart.

I don't think they charge by the lb. yet just for each piece of luggage. I just find it amazing that she can pack for her, her husband and 3 young kids in once piece of luggage plus the carry on.

A friend of mine flew to Jamaica last year, American ( the airlines that is charging) Lost her luggage. She was going to a wedding and had late Christmas gifts for her family.

The luggage never got to Jamaica, when she did get it, most everything had been stole and then it took her 10 or 12 weeks to get reimbursed by them.

In the mean time she had to buy another dress, make up, hair dryer etc.

If that is the service they give, i will pass on American, no matter how cheap.

Aloha! Nice!

I still think it is wrong, the NY Post has a cartoon in it yesterday, the jet is on the runway and the pilot is explaining that take off is extra, please pay the flight attendant as they come around. So true!

Gee Rev, I never thought of you as a pacifist.

not a pacafist a realist !LOL

I never ealised how many different businesses were being hurt by the gas prices. Its just unbelievable! It seems every day when I read the paper something else is going up in price because of gas prices. What a mess we have huh?

I said the same thing...Can you see going to a fine restaurant and ordering food from the menu, then they add on an extra fee to sit down. Or you go to play golf and rent a cart, then they charge extra for putting the clubs in the cart.


See comment 2 posts above about cartoon in NY Post, the airfare does the include the price of taking off.


Yes, last weekend we took the dogs to get a bath and the holiday inn by the dog wash is normally full of people, was empty.

The rising fuel prices are putting a crimp in everyone's budget.

I am sure the airlines also raised their prices as well.

I think that when you get a price, it should include a minimum service and the vast majority of people that fly use luggage, that is a given and at least one piece should be included for check-in. They can use a maximum weight and charge extra above it but they should not charge for a single piece

I understand overweight or extra piece...but I can't accept charging for one piece