$50 2nd Checked Bag Fee on Intl Flights Effective 1 July
Apr 21, 2009, 7:38 am
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$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.
Drip... drip... drip.
Apr 21, 2009, 7:44 am
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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.
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.
Apr 21, 2009, 7:46 am
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Yep... here it is http://www.usatoday.com/travel/fligh...-q1-loss_N.htm
Now lets wait for everyone to follow..........
Now lets wait for everyone to follow..........
Apr 21, 2009, 7:47 am
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No reason they should charge passengers for bags from ATL-LAX but not from ATL-Panama (as an example).
Apr 21, 2009, 7:51 am
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Just saw this on MSNBC. Interesting-- wonder how it'll play out, especially for those ex-NWA'ers that are already not happy.
Apr 21, 2009, 7:51 am
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Well they will never get a dime from me as I will never check in another bag.
Apr 21, 2009, 7:52 am
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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.
Apr 21, 2009, 7:52 am
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this is ridiculous!!
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 $$ did Mommy and Daddy spend help you get those cocky financial degrees and you can't even manage your fees?
I'd like to show them all the times I've flown internationally on their airline and not checked 2 or even a bag? Can I get coupon certificates for all those times so that I may kindly redeem them when I really need to check that 2nd bag?
I know for a fact that Delta management reads flyer talk.
My message to them is that they all should be fired for making poor hedging bets on fuel.
Their IVY league business degrees are worth crap - just like all those fund managers on Wall Street.
How much $$ 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?
Apr 21, 2009, 7:53 am
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Boo HISS
What happened to building a "premier" airline?
What happened to building a "premier" airline?
Apr 21, 2009, 7:57 am
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Apr 21, 2009, 8:01 am
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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.
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.
Apr 21, 2009, 8:06 am
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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.
Apr 21, 2009, 8:08 am
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NWA bookings are (at the moment) not affected, right?
And there is no public date yet, when there are no NWA bookings possible anymore?
Apr 21, 2009, 8:08 am
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