$50 2nd Checked Bag Fee on Intl Flights Effective 1 July
Just heard this new fee for international flights announced on MSNBC... DL expects it to raise $100m in extra revenue. Fee becomes effective just in time for summer overseas travel, what there is of it.
Drip... drip... drip.
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Owing to heightened security you must comply with any crazy fake "regulation" we make up. Thank you sir.
Fees, fees, fees -- DL management is hooked to them like a crack cocaine addict is hooked to cocaine.
It would be unlawful if the revised baggage allowance is applied to all international DL tickets already issued while DL was still marketing to the purchasers that there were two free checked bags applicable for their ticket.
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This game is not as much fun as it used to be: 2008/2009 Frequent Flyer Program Fleecing Award goes to Delta Airlines
Just heard this new fee for international flights announced on MSNBC... DL expects it to raise $100m in extra revenue. Fee becomes effective just in time for summer overseas travel, what there is of it.
Drip... drip... drip.
I'm going to get killed for saying this, but I think that is an excellent way to generate revenue for the airline.
No reason they should charge passengers for bags from ATL-LAX but not from ATL-Panama (as an example).
I'm going to get killed for saying this, but I think that is an excellent way to generate revenue for the airline.
No reason they should charge passengers for bags from ATL-LAX but not from ATL-Panama (as an example).
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They are losing money. They have to generate revenue from somewhere.
From the USA Today article:
Elite frequent fliers and active military are exempt from paying Delta's new fee for a second checked bag on international flights. The first checked bag on international flights remains free.
I know for a fact that Delta management reads flyer talk.
My message to them is that they all should be fired for making poor hedging bets on fuel.
Their IVY league business degrees are worth crap - just like all those fund managers on Wall Street.
How much $$ did Mommy and Daddy spend help you get those cocky financial degrees and you can't even manage your fees?
I'd like to show them all the times I've flown internationally on their airline and not checked 2 or even a bag? Can I get coupon certificates for all those times so that I may kindly redeem them when I really need to check that 2nd bag?
Sooner or later, DL management will push for no free checked bags even on international flights and hope that the increased government allowances for airline industry concentration and cartelization will allow for such fees to stick without customers jumping to their competition.
DL is going to do something to its image internationally with these fees -- particularly for passengers originating in non-OECD markets and flying to/from the US -- but it won't be that of "premier" carrier.
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This game is not as much fun as it used to be: 2008/2009 Frequent Flyer Program Fleecing Award goes to Delta Airlines
you're a PM....why does this affect you? hell, the majority of the people who respond in here are medallions, why are we complaining?
It does impact customers, and that includes impacting even PMs -- DL management has shown that fees it slaps onto the general customer base are often packaged with a fee waiver for elites that is nothing but a temporary fee waiver in reality. Remember that DL management is known for cutting elite benefits such as fee waivers and so the fees sooner or later become applicable to even Silver, Gold and Platinum passengers.
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This game is not as much fun as it used to be: 2008/2009 Frequent Flyer Program Fleecing Award goes to Delta Airlines
