If it were cheaper people would pack their entire ****ing life for every weekend day trip. And can airlines start enforcing the overhead bag size rule? How many retards do I have to watch try to cram over-sized bags into the bins?
Pay the 25/50 bucks and check it or bring less stuff.
As someone that often has to travel for work - (and I normally only need one carry-on luggage), I would wager that majority of folks travel a typical of 3-5 days business wise, and anywhere from 1 - 3 weeks vacation wise. Being able for each passenger to have ONE check-in luggage at the cost of the ticket isn't asking for jack shit. Well, you know... considering that EVERY airline allowed such once upon a time. Remind me, how much did fares go down when they revoked that and started charging fees for it? Oh yeah, nothing. Fucking nothing. The fares didn't change, and the airlines now enjoy a fat profit on the "courtesy" of you having to use clothing at your destination.
How is a 2 second google search to get baggage fee information complex? Whatever you do please don't fly on any intra Europe or intra Asia tickets then as you'll probably be hopelessly lost because they often have even more disparate allowances by airline, notably smaller allowable luggage dimensions and actually hold you to size and weight restrictions. (Sure ULCCs do that here but I've had carry on stuff weighed by BA, Lufthansa and Iberia off the top of my head. I've never had my carry on weighed by Delta, United, AA, Alaska etc)
Unfortunately you can usually tell who are Americans at overseas airports as they're the ones lugging around bloated luggage stuffed to the gills and then get all upset when its sized and weighed because it 'was fine in America' but now they have to pay more
But maybe a 2 second google search is too complex for most Americans...
It's not complex if you know what airline you are flying. I'm answering to the OP - whom is looking for a search engine that factors in all the different elements from all the different airlines - and that isn't easy is my point. No need to get snarky like I don't know how to find the baggage policy from a particular airline.
As a matter of fact, Lufthansa is an airline I'll be flying shortly. I have a trip to Germany, and will be spending 2-weeks in Germany followed by 1 week in Belgium. Lufthansa is what I'm using to fly from Munich to Brussels - but obviously being gone for 3 weeks we're going to need some checked luggage - especially because we're traveling with a kiddo. This is actually an example I was stating where if you buy their "economy" seat you don't get a checked bag, but if I upgrade to the "normal" seat, I do. Unsurprisingly I didn't have any other options for direct flights.
It would go a long way towards raising airfares. Why should I have to pay more for my carry on only trip just because you need to cart a crap ton of stuff on yours? That doesn't sound libertarian at all.
Once again, I say b-b-b-b-ullshit. Once upon a time, they spelled out this bullshit rhetoric that "If we start charging for bags it will bring down the fares". BULL-FUCKING-SHIT. You and I both know it's bullshit, hopefully you're not stupid and can remove your head from your ass and admit that it is bullshit.
I'm not saying that we should be able to carry on a Cargo-ship of luggage. I said ONE checked-bag. ONE.
Also on that note, since you want to throw everyone under the bus that has ever had to check a bag (obviously you don't have a family or you would understand) - why aren't we charging fat fucks more? They take up more space, they piss off people that have to sit next to them, and their weight plays a much larger factor in the mileage of the plane. A 350lb person could be swapped with a 200lb passenger and 3 checked bags.
This. People proved that Spirit's 'pay for everything and offer shitty service' model was successful so everyone else started doing it.
I think spirit airline is more of an example of a pyramid scheme... Once you have try it once you will never again return (for majority of customers). I partly blame the stupid sites like Travelocity/Hotwire/<Insert "discount" travel site>. People book their fares there and just presume that it is all the same with the final price and don't learn their lesson until they hit all the fees on their trip.
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