Originally Posted by
Nachtswerg
I disagree that a skycap should be considered basic service. The airlines provide you with a perfectly fine place to haul your luggage (the counter). Anything else is supplementary.
Curb-side check-in certainly is not basic service and you pay extra for that. (Twice actually.) Being able to drop your bags of in a reasonable amount of time is.
I think this skycap thing is a good example that dispproves the general claim that tipping results in a higher level of service. It obviously doesn't (especially if there is not really anything you can do good or bad: take bags, return baggage claim). Good management does assure a high level of service to all customers.
HTB.