Spirit Airlines - $45 for carry-on luggage
On domestic flights, checking a bag will be $5 cheaper than carrying it on, which could encourage passengers to check more bags. Baldanza said that's fine with him, since it costs the airline about as much to load one bag as it does to load 100 into the belly of the plane.
Sweet. So I'm essentially paying not to have my luggage tossed around like a large hacky-sack.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Let's not forget that it also won't be riffled through by criminals...I mean TSA agents...Malcolm wrote:Sweet. So I'm essentially paying not to have my luggage tossed around like a large hacky-sack.On domestic flights, checking a bag will be $5 cheaper than carrying it on, which could encourage passengers to check more bags. Baldanza said that's fine with him, since it costs the airline about as much to load one bag as it does to load 100 into the belly of the plane.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
I don't know how I feel about this. The wife likes it, because people try to scam the system and carry oversized shit onto the airplane, then (used to) get checked for free right at the door of the airplane... like with a baby stroller. Also, flight attendants hate that it takes so long to load/unload a plane because people are screwing around in the overhead bins. As a flyer who often sits in the back I also hate the automatic addition of 15 minutes to my itinerary waiting for the plane to unload.
On the other hand, I hate the product airlines are currently selling, and there are situations in which I don't reasonably have a choice but to use the airlines.
On the other hand, I hate the product airlines are currently selling, and there are situations in which I don't reasonably have a choice but to use the airlines.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
If my luggage weren't treated like Mike Tyson's sparring partner, I'd be completely neutral. As it is, I'd have to pay to keep from my property from getting mangled if I decided to fly that airline. And while it's nice for the airline to load a hundred bags at a time, I fucking hate going to the baggage carousel to wait.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Yeah, the last few times I've flown have been for short trips, and I carried just a gym bag with a change of clothes/toiletries, and a laptop case with a laptop and book inside. One undersized bag in the overhead, one under the seat, and I didn't have to pay for luggage and don't have to wait at luggage claim with my fingers crossed.
Not any more, not on Spirit.
Not any more, not on Spirit.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Resistance.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel....T_N.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/travel....T_N.htm
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
"We're gonna hold the airline's feet to the fire on this," LaHood said in an interview published on the Elliott.org travel site. "I think it's a bit outrageous that an airline is going to charge someone to carry on a bag and put it in the overhead. And I've told our people to try and figure out a way to mitigate that."
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday he'd propose legislation declaring carry-on bags to be "reasonably necessary" to air transportation unless the Treasury Department reverses its recent ruling that carry-on bags aren't necessary. That would make such fees subject to federal taxes the same as fares.
Schumer said passengers "have always had the right to bring a carry-on bag without having to worry about getting nickel and dimed."
If these statements aren't indicative of EVERYTHING that's wrong with government, I don't know what is.
It's not me, it's someone else.