Originally Posted by
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instead of pis*ing folks off with a lousy 15 bucks for a checked bag. why not just raise the fares 15 bucks and advertise "free" checked bags? standard marketing. with everyone beating the airlines to death, why not look like the good guy?
This has been my position on bag fees all along. But the airlines are convinced that they have to do it on the back end, rather than up front.
And yes, the airline that doesn't tack on tons of fees is going to look like the good guy and come out ahead. Right now that airline is WN, and I think it will continue to be. But I sure wish it was CO that would use some common sense and be that airline.