Originally Posted by
danielonn
I'm a very considerate flyer when it comes time to packing my bag and I even use my scale to ensure that it meets the airline weight requirements. I firmly believe that your first bag should be allowed free by law and any additional bags can be assessed a fee.
What rational basis do you have for making this a law?
Here is why my proposal is important.
1. Passengers with disabilities who have many things to take care of. Why give preferential treatment to military frequent fliers and credit card holders.
How about only redheads get free bags? Honestly, for every group you think should be entitled to free baggage, another group is going to come up with a reason for why they are more deserving. What about a disability automatically means that the individual _needs_ to check a bag?
2. It would free up the overhead bin space. Simply put I along with other people would not want to gate check an expensive laptop because of the bin hogs.
If you gate check a laptop, you're an idiot. Why can't it fit under the seat in front of you.
3. Quicker emplaning deplaning.
I'd love to see some statistics on this. I think that luggage is only a minimal contributor to slow boarding and deplanning.
Airlines should give us incentives such as priority bag handling for printing our own boarding pass to packing lightly.
What exactly happens when everyone gets priority bag handling because they packed lightly or printed their own boarding pass?
Luggage workers are on the clock so why would you add a fee for most passengers and charge people with a disability or those mindful frequent fliers on the low status? To me its extortion and discrimination. The TSA confiscates liquids and steals from passengers.
OK, this is three unrelated thoughts crammed together. But let's focus on the on-the-clock luggage handlers: If the number of bags suddenly doubles, triples or quadruples, then the number of baggage handlers will have to increase exponentially, too. That will result in higher airfares. You know, kind of like the fees you pay now to check bags on some airlines.
To me all airlines by law should offer the first bag free and charge $75 for the second bag.
We as a nation need to work with the Federal. Government to allow the first bag to go free. It would speed up security checkpoints.
Yay...faster checkpoints. As someone who never checks a bag, I'm happy to let all of you suckers instead waste your time waiting to check and claim baggage.[/quote]
And if you wanted to take it a step further those with one carry on get to go through the Express security line.
Yeah, no. I pay for PreCheck and I'm an efficient packer who carries on my luggage. I don't want to be behind idiots who don't understand how PreCheck works.
At checkin those with a single suitcase can get weighed at self use scales by the self service checkin machines and would direct you to the express lane. I hate waiting behind people with loads of bags. Families and those with more bags should be processed accordingly.
So wait, you're now punishing families who check bags by forcing them into slower lanes? I see a government hearing on the topic in the future.
I want the entire process from car to plane to take no more than 15 minutes-30 mins and being able to arrive 60 minutes before a flight domestically and 90-120 mins for an overseas flight just like pre 9-11.
Ha! That's so cute. How, pray tell, do you propose having 2x, 3x or 4x the people checking luggage but believe that the process from car to plane should take no more than 30 minutes for a domestic flight? Has it occurred to you that turnaround times on all flights would increase dramatically because there would be that much more luggage to load and unload?
What are your thoughts on this proposal?
You've heard them.