Article: Airline News - North America.

Oct 4, 2009

It's getting harder to leave behind baggage fees when passengers depart from the U.S. Fees to check bags on international flights are creeping in and may be here to stay. In the past three months, all the big U.S. carriers have added $50 fees to check a second bag on flights to Europe. Delta and Continental are charging second-bag fees for flights to Latin America, too. WHAT THEY CHARGE: Airline bag fees for international flights. Airlines had already gone a similar route with domestic bag fees. United Airlines started with a fee to check a second bag last year, and other carriers followed. The wave of international bag fees got started July 1 when ...

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