Generally speaking, I attempt to limit my blogging rants and raves strictly to marketing and amateur photography fun that’s palatable to most. I am, however, outraged at a new policy about to go into effect (June 15) from your friends at American Airlines: you will now be required to pay $15 for your First checked bag.
While I understand the airline industry was not prepared to handle this surge in oil prices, I can’t seem to put it together how we’re expected to travel without luggage. Since when has a change in clothes and some makeup (since we can no longer carry-on open liquids) been considered a luxury?
Carry-ons have already been limited and shrunk to miniscule sizes, meals are a thing of thing of the past and peanuts? Forget it! Now you’re going to make us pay to stow luggage? What’s next? Will we have to rent our own seat cushions?.
For the life of me, I can't make sense of the fact that we're paying an airline (soon to be all, surely) to handle our baggage with the same rifling, indiscretion and carelessness as they were before.
While high gas prices are discouraging people from driving great distances and train travel hardly exists, these supplemental expenses associated with airline travel will further damage an already struggling travel industry.
Yes, it’s $15, but yet another charge in a long history of increases and delays. Poorly chosen, American Airlines, you’ve lost another customer—among the thousands of others you left stranded earlier this year.
Read the full story here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/05/19/daily20.html?f=et58&ana=e_du
and more here:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B175A0C6E%2D129D%2D4C92%2DB2E3%2DFE090BE3048F%7D&siteid=rss
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