Airline onboard Luggage

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The airlines, as usual, want to blame the traveling public rather than looking at the real cause of this problem. The real blame clearly falls on the airline itself for over booking flights and deciding to charge a fee for checking bags. The combination of these two policies not only irritates travelers because they feel that they’ve become sardines and because they’re being nickel and dimed to death.


Because there are more people crammed into aircraft and because of these new fees, the flights are full all of the time and a majority of passengers are carrying luggage on board. So, the boarding takes longer and tempers flare when a bag can’t be accommodated in the overhead compartments.

If the airlines would rescind these ill conceived policies, many travelers would check their bags rather than trying to bring that vespa they purchased while traveling to some island paradise on board.