When it comes to traveling and flying one thing that a wide and vast array of people are familiar when it comes to this is checking in luggage. However there are some recent finding that think people could have been putting their money to better use than luggage check in. This article offers you the insight into whether or not flyers could have been putting their money to better use other than luggage check in.
Key Takeaways:
- SOME frequent travellers have the sense that all the money they have spent on airline baggage fees down the years could have been put to a better use.
- in the approximately nine years since checked-bag fees started becoming common, American flyers have spent enough putting things in the hold of planes to purchase the country’s most valuable airline.
- they are an incentive to stop people flying with more luggage than they need, and a way of ensuring people pay their fair share, since each extra bag means more weight and higher fuel costs.
“Thrillist has crunched the numbers and concluded that in the approximately nine years since checked-bag fees started becoming common, American flyers have spent enough putting things in the hold of planes to purchase the country’s most valuable airline.”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/09/money-bags?fsrc=rss
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