Oh, $5, Goodness me. Big deal about nothing.So, if you need to pay that $15 extra for a bag, it's going to cost you $5 to pay the fee.Say what?
Yeah, I know what your options are. Excuse me for pointing out another way they can get in your wallet.Oh, $5, Goodness me. Big deal about nothing.So, if you need to pay that $15 extra for a bag, it's going to cost you $5 to pay the fee.Say what?
If you check-in on line, you can pay the normal bag fee. If you wait to check in at the airport, or you decide to check a bag at the airport after checking in on-line with no bags, you pay $5 more. Or, you carry on and pay zero.
I wasn't aiming my sarcasim at you. I was aiming it at the AP reporter who made it out to be a whole lot bigger deal than deserved. Sorry if my aim was off....Yeah, I know what your options are. Excuse me for pointing out another way they can get in your wallet.
Unless, of course, you are departing from or arriving at a station that does not have checked baggage. Then you can't check bags at all.Or you can just take Amtrak and check your bags for free!
Then you can hope there's bag space in a luggage rack.Unless, of course, you are departing from or arriving at a station that does not have checked baggage. Then you can't check bags at all.Or you can just take Amtrak and check your bags for free!
Assuming you mean AirTran, not "AirTrain", AirTran's baggage fees are $15 for the first bag and $25 for the second. Your savings were $80, not $200....My mom took AirTrain to PDX a couple weeks ago while I went ALC-CHI-PDX. ALC doesn't have checked baggage, but I took two of her bags across the country (AirTrain charges $50 per checked bag, per way, so total savings of $200).
It was a bit of a hassle to lug it through CUS to check, and uncheck as well as de-train and hop on the CL-- but for a saved $200 I won't complain further than that.
What list are you talking about???I can't check in online ahead of time - does that mean I'd have to pay the fee?The reason I can't check in online is that someone with my same name is on one of the lists; so am I.
Every time I travel by air (and on my last cruise) I get extra harrassment.
Most likely he is talking of CAPPS II.What list are you talking about???I can't check in online ahead of time - does that mean I'd have to pay the fee?The reason I can't check in online is that someone with my same name is on one of the lists; so am I.
Every time I travel by air (and on my last cruise) I get extra harrassment.
Just curious.
For a few years we got the extra special treatment every time we got on a plane in the US. Finally got someone to answer the why honestly. It seems that for several years if you had a ticket with an overseas origination point you were automatically flagged on every leg of your flight after your original landing in the US. Maybe not of the first connection after the overseas flight, but after that. We used to come home once a year for 3 to 4 weeks and thanks to the kids being scattered, we would spend a few days in one place then hop to another, sometimes three or four times during the stay. Apparently that is classified as suspicious activity. Compared notes and found the same thing happened with some of the other people I worked with overseas. Don't know if this involved from everywhere, but definitely from more than one point in Asia.I can't check in online ahead of time - does that mean I'd have to pay the fee?The reason I can't check in online is that someone with my same name is on one of the lists; so am I.
Every time I travel by air (and on my last cruise) I get extra harrassment.
I suspect it also has to do with the size of the dossier they have on you. If they have a very thick dossier on you apparently they take much less interest in you. I have been absolutely astonished about how little hassle I have gotten either from CAPPS II or from APIS.For a few years we got the extra special treatment every time we got on a plane in the US. Finally got someone to answer the why honestly. It seems that for several years if you had a ticket with an overseas origination point you were automatically flagged on every leg of your flight after your original landing in the US. Maybe not of the first connection after the overseas flight, but after that. We used to come home once a year for 3 to 4 weeks and thanks to the kids being scattered, we would spend a few days in one place then hop to another, sometimes three or four times during the stay. Apparently that is classified as suspicious activity. Compared notes and found the same thing happened with some of the other people I worked with overseas. Don't know if this involved from everywhere, but definitely from more than one point in Asia.I can't check in online ahead of time - does that mean I'd have to pay the fee?The reason I can't check in online is that someone with my same name is on one of the lists; so am I.
Every time I travel by air (and on my last cruise) I get extra harrassment.
Or you can just take Amtrak and check your bags for free!
is that even safe.Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse.
Standing room only
If you tie the person down tight enough on a vertical slab ..... :lol:is that even safe.Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse.
Standing room only
Debatable, because passengers will still be strapped in. However Ryanair already have 189 passengers on their Boeing 737-800s, which is the absolute maximum permitted for that aircraft type by (IIRC) either Boeing or the European authorities, basically because they don't want more passengers with only four full size and four over wing emergency exits.is that even safe.Just when you thought flying couldn't get any worse.
Standing room only
Even they have joined in..........another way they can get in your wallet.
I made the mistake of doing on-line check in for a flight to Canada on United. I ended up typing in passport information 3 times. For 5 people. Then I still had to deal with an agent at MSP. Much easier to pay the extra $5 per bag to check in at the Halifax airport on the way back. I too wish that we were on the train.I flew United last week from SFO to Spokane - not enough time away available to train up there, so flying was necessary, though not wanted.
I took the trouble to get the boarding pass online and pay the discounted $10 a pop for the bags. When we got to SFO I thought it would be a breeze as all we had to do was dump the bags at the automated baggage check and hit the security line. No thanks to United, when I tried to process thru the baggage check, the machine choked and asked for money for the bags, at the full boat rate, so I had to wait for an agent to process us manually. Man, I sure wished we were on the train!
If I have to do that again, I'm going to try the Skycaps, it's worth a couple bucks a bag and a tip to not have to deal with baggage checkin.
Right now we excited as we will board the CZ Sunday morn for our annual sea to sea to Connecticut and back! WhooHoo!!!
I'll get my revenge on Sunday when we board Amtrak, and ride east ending up in New Haven CT via CZ, LSL and NEC, then return in a few weeks via NEC, LSL, SWC and CS. Whoopie!I made the mistake of doing on-line check in for a flight to Canada on United. I ended up typing in passport information 3 times. For 5 people. Then I still had to deal with an agent at MSP. Much easier to pay the extra $5 per bag to check in at the Halifax airport on the way back. I too wish that we were on the train.I flew United last week from SFO to Spokane - not enough time away available to train up there, so flying was necessary, though not wanted.
I took the trouble to get the boarding pass online and pay the discounted $10 a pop for the bags. When we got to SFO I thought it would be a breeze as all we had to do was dump the bags at the automated baggage check and hit the security line. No thanks to United, when I tried to process thru the baggage check, the machine choked and asked for money for the bags, at the full boat rate, so I had to wait for an agent to process us manually. Man, I sure wished we were on the train!
If I have to do that again, I'm going to try the Skycaps, it's worth a couple bucks a bag and a tip to not have to deal with baggage checkin.
Right now we excited as we will board the CZ Sunday morn for our annual sea to sea to Connecticut and back! WhooHoo!!!
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