Originally Posted by
in2it54
Isn't there even a bigger scenario.
Airlines the world over, would like to see the end of "checked bags".
When you think about the cost involved in transporting your bag - checking it, transporting it, returning it to you. Mega, just mega cost, all that equipment, all those people, all that weight.
Roller aboard is the desired outcome, specially for the clients that are leapfrogging from country to country (chasing low cost fare options or adding award segments) and multipling the "bag handling" cost factor.
Not sure what you are exactly trying to say. Are you suggesting that airlines might be able to noticeably reduce or phase out checked baggage altogether (and thus avoid all those costs which you point out) by significantly inconveniencing the small minority of passengers who are connecting across different PNRs, when in reality the majority of checked bags likely belong to passengers on plain vanilla PNR/tickets?