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A Timeline on Airline Baggage Fee Revenue
A Timeline on Airline Baggage Fee Revenue AirlineBagFeES .COM The Biggest Culprits for 2011 Delta Air Lines American Airlines $863,608,000 US Airways $593,465,000 United $506,340,000 AirTran Airways $276,817,000 $2,745,223,000 Alaska Airlines $164,670,000 Spirit Air Lines $157,013,000 Frontier $133,971,000 JetBlue $72,543,000 Virgin America $64,078,000 Southwest $46,002,000 Sun Country $32,035,000 $13,398,000 $464,284,000 $285,754,000 $180,226,000 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Baggage Fees Revenues per year: source of the information http://www.bts.gov. $3,401,145,000 $3,390,840,000 $209,807,000 $152,959,000 $259,156,000 $1,149,613,000 $341,935,000 $441,010,000
A Timeline on Airline Baggage Fee Revenue
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Reports were made that despite the incredible growing in baggage fee revenues over the last decade, revenues for airlines were actually on the way down despite a slight rise of passengers in 2011 comp...
ared to 2010.
Is this good news for passengers? The truth is, no…well, not really. Bottom-line, the baggage fees are still the same cost and they aren’t going away. If anything, they will be going up and more fees are likely to be created in the near future.
What are the reasons the revenue has dropped?
People are doing a better job of traveling light and not checking bags. This also results in bigger carry-on bags, and drum roll please…will eventually lead to more airlines charging for carry-on luggage. Spirit, which is well known for nickel-and-diming passengers with extra fees, already announced a $100 fee for passengers that have to bag check their luggage at the gate. This will undoubtedly deter people from bringing large carry-on luggage that does not fit in overhead bins. Doing so has been a trick frequent fliers have been using ever since baggage fees came into existence.
The airlines are doing a better job of selling branded credit cards, which often waive baggage fees. A percentage of passengers are using these cards to save money on baggage fees. However, unless you travel frequently, most of these cards are not going to be a lot of help. The various costs of having a credit card could easily end up being the same, if not more, at the end of the day.
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