Originally Posted by
dulciusexasperis
the bins were removed and everyone had to pay a fee per checked bag, it would not change the overall cost of you flying at all. It would just change how the price was shown to you.
That's almost certainly not true. It would be true if airlines (or any business for that matter) charged you the amount that it costs them to do business, plus some fixed percentage of profit. But that's not how it works. There is a reason that "unbundling" is so popular -- it raises revenue.