US Airways Baggage Policy
Submitted by Pat on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 22:23
Cleaning out one of my mailboxes, I noticed a notification from US Airways informing me that, due to the cost of fuel, they have implemented a $25 charge for a second piece of checked baggage.
Since it's weight that causes more fuel to be used, they ought to be charging passengers by pounds of baggage times number of miles traveled rather than by the piece. Clearly they're just trying to extract more money from passengers, using fuel as the scapegoat.
US Airways, the contempt you hold your customers in is one of the reasons I avoid flying you anywhere.
Almost everybody's doing it now
At this writing, pretty much everybody is charging for second, or even first bags now. This has trod into the realm of the ridiculous. Airlines ought to be charging just fare, and fare should include two pieces of checked baggage. Ticket prices ought to be based on fuel contracts so that airlines aren't caught short later on as they buy fuel to carry a passenger who bought a ticket weeks or months ago when the fuel price was cheaper. The airlines *are* going to run out of things to charge for, and then what?