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LHR/MEL/Europe FF
marketing or cost savings... but in the OP's case, if you had a business, I can't see anyone making a rational decision to lose $60k in exchange for the small risk of additional costs (if a bag went missing).
I think that $60k, in the grand scheme of things, isn't really that big (well, the person at the counter processing bags doesn't have a handle on this). QF revenue per year is over $13bn, so $60k may not be that important I suppose.