No sarcasm here.
Fortunately, things are still run by a free market. It is impossible for an airline to guess what the price of fuel will be in the next few months while they are quoting ticket prices today. Nobody likes to be nickel and dimed but that is what is in the future as far as public air travel. If passengers really were upset about paying the $15 for bag number one, they would fly another carrier. However, more and more carriers are following AA's example probably because it is working. By the way, AA was one of the few airlines that did not receive federal aid. Why should a passenger with no bags pay the same as another passenger who has over 70 pounds of luggage? All that baggage adds up when you multiply the number of passengers taking advantage of the system when it was the old way of cheap fuel. This also minimizes the possibility of denied boarding since load factors are a little lighter.
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