See
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum35/HTML/004367.html
This is getting ridiculous -- I guess people are truly buying travel on price only, and we'll end up with $0 tickets and everything else will be in fees (fee to check-in, fee for orange juice, coin-operated lavatories, etc., etc.
This fee, however, this one is so obnoxious (and it's timed perfectly to snag gramma as she takes Christmas/hannuka/whatever presents to the grandchildrens) that I bet AA won't match it.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Effective for travel December 15, 2002, Northwest Airlines will modify its free weight allowance for checked passenger luggage on domestic flights (U.S., Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico).
For checked luggage that weighs 70 to 100 pounds (31.5 to 45 kilograms), the fee will be reduced from $80USD to $50USD.
For checked baggage that weighs between 50 and 70 pounds, a new fee of $25USD will be charged.
The change does not affect the quantity of luggage that a customer may check. Each passenger is permitted to check two
pieces of luggage.
The maximum size of each checked piece is 62
inches/158 centimeters in total linear measurement (length + height + width).
Charges for extra pieces and oversize luggage remain the same.
All international baggage policies remain
unchanged.</font>