Delta luggage fees — they giveth and taketh away
While Delta announced a reduction in award-ticket fuel surcharges, a drop in the telephone reservation fee and the elimination of the curbside check-in fee, they add a first-checked-bag fee. In the end customers lose.
Is the cost of airline surcharges worth it? Yes — and no
The airline world is being roiled by an “unbundling” trend. Once the costs of baggage, meals, drinks, pillows and blankets were included in fares. Today, most airlines are beginning to charge for these as extras — add-ons to the basic charge of getting passengers from Point A to Point B. But not all of them.