Paying to check your baggage when you fly...

In a way, I almost feel like this is a trick. So, it will cost me $10 to check my bag....however, if I am going anywhere for longer than say, 2-3 nights I have to check a bag because of, 1. carry-on size restrictions and, 2. the long list of things you can't bring onto a flight anymore (Including liquids and gels). I feel like this price hike will have more people not wanting to check bags, hence resluting in even longer secruity lines, and less safety for the passengers on the flight. True, if a flight is $100 cheaper, than I don't mind $10. But I am also a single traveler. This really penalizes families. A family of 4 is likely to to have 4 bags that need to be checked, especially around the holidays. That's an extra $220. At that point it starts to negate any savings. I also heard that many airlines are charging $1 for soda.....hover they won't take cash. So you have to use a credit card for a $1 soda! That seem a bit extreme.

Although I love the idea of cheaper fairs, surely the price of the fair should include at least one baggage? Almost everyone now has to check in a bag as there are so many things you can't take on board the plane. I think the airlines should allow one case per person and then charge people for any extra cases or according to weight. Whenever I visit my parents in the UK, I'm always having to borrow an extra suitcase to bring back gifts and essentials that I can't buy in the country I live in. I don't mind paying extra for that, but will it really be helping air fares over the next years, the EU are talking about putting more taxes on to air travel, any savings we will have made will be lost again paying for these new taxes.