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Old Feb 7, 2012 | 12:39 pm
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Originally Posted by yvr76
Bags fees are always by operated carrier, not ticketed (i.e. codeshares don't factor into the equation).

In any case, both AC and United charge for 1st checked bag unless you have status, so I'm not sure it would make a difference?
Ooh. My bad - I should've checked UA before posting - but when I was flying SEA-YVR a few weeks ago, UA agents were telling me how AC forces them to charge for checked bags whereas they wouldn't have. So I assumed their first checked bag is free, oops.
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