Comments on: A Tip for American Airlines http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2008/05/02/a-tip-for-american-airlines/ A Blog of Musings and Mockery Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: just pixels http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2008/05/02/a-tip-for-american-airlines/#comment-57 just pixels Mon, 26 May 2008 16:01:01 +0000 http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2008/05/02/a-tip-for-american-airlines/#comment-57 And now (5/26) they're charging $15 for each checked bag. Until collapses in the marketplace, the skycaps will have nothing to do. More significantly, air travel is slowly returning to something only the well-to-do can afford. Flying anywhere takes two days -- one inbound, one outbound -- reducing vacation, family or other time. Surcharges for fuel, gate, meals and luggage push up the price. To get through security, you basically need to re-purchase your toiletries in 3oz packages. Most people don't have the time, patience or money to be jet-setters anymore. And now (5/26) they’re charging $15 for each checked bag. Until collapses in the marketplace, the skycaps will have nothing to do.

More significantly, air travel is slowly returning to something only the well-to-do can afford. Flying anywhere takes two days — one inbound, one outbound — reducing vacation, family or other time. Surcharges for fuel, gate, meals and luggage push up the price. To get through security, you basically need to re-purchase your toiletries in 3oz packages. Most people don’t have the time, patience or money to be jet-setters anymore.

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