Misery works: airlines making money on baggage fees

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5-16-2009 @ 8:30AM

Snife said...

I understand that weight means more fuel which means more money but the problem I have is with underhanded and excessive charging.

'Discount' airlines, particularly in the UK like Ryanair, advertise flight prices but I always find them to end up being more expensive than decent airlines like BA or BMI as you have all these extra charges just to make the flight barable. They have a lower baggage allowance than other airlines and charge 2-3 times as much for exceeding the limit.

The fact that I might pay £50 for a flight with them, which entitles me to my weight (90kg) and a 15kg bag, to fly the same total weight as excess baggage (which obviously wouldn't be allowed but doing for comparison purposes) would cost £1575 - that to me is underhanded and is an attempt to get people to book 'cheap' flights and then screw them every way they can. I would love not to support such airlines but often have little choice because of times/destinations.

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