Originally Posted by
liberty805
I support the charging of bag fees! Why? Well because they were never "free." Instead they were absorbed into the fare and people like me, who almost never check a bag, have been subsidizing those who do.
If this were true WN could have kept the status quo. Instead their financials have been flaccid and thus the sharks came rushing in to rip things up.
$7.1 Billion in bag fees were collected in 2024 by US airlines. That money flows straight to margin (unlike a passenger ticket). WN didn’t participate in probably $7B of that.
Fares won’t go down. Points earning and the passenger experience will decline however.