Originally Posted by
ashill
By the way, separately, AA's bag fees apply for this itinerary. Note that the second bag fee is AA's $35, not AS's $25. AS would charge $35. So indeed the ticketing carrier, not the operating carrier, does set bag fees (unlike ancillary fees like on board purchases).
(Because AS does a lot of business sending passengers to partners, my experience is that their agents are very used to collecting the correct bag fees from the partner, when appropriate. That’s why I’m surprised that they got this wrong. It makes me think that AA does have the correct $25 bag fee in the system but applies the waiver in producing the eticket receipt; I don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. But as
Often1 noted, this detail is all irrelevant to the OP. The eticket receipt said USD0.00, so that’s the most the OP can be charged.)
Understood. I had it wrong previously (thinking most significant carrier still)