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Originally Posted by jimworcs
The other alternative is to include the costs of luggage in the ticket price, so there is no financial incentive to take too many bags on the aircraft.
Or has that been tried before?....................
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It's been thought of and done in the past and I can tell you why they won't bring it back. When a traveler is planning a trip from ABC to XYZ, they are searching for the cheapest fare they can find listed. Most often the fares listed do not include "taxes, fees, or other add-ons" when they are shown online. We know this to be the case and we also know it can cause much heartache when someone realizes they are being charged any significant amount more than they had planned on (RyanAir, AerLingus). I digress, but let's suppose you are looking at a list of prices from ABC to XYZ on the screen infront of you, you see airlines A thru D have the flight for $110. Airline E assumes you will be bringing 2 bags and incorporates the cost into the ticket so their price is $155. Who do you think the consumer is going to pick? You guessed it, not airline E. So in order to get the sale from the get go, the fees cannot be added unless EVERY AIRLINE adds the same amount to EVERY ticket.
I'm sure you knew all that already, but I felt like typing!
