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I’d like to see airlines charge for carryons and allow checked bags for free. Carryons are by far the best experience for a passenger - your bag is there with
by avalys 1y ago
I’d like to see airlines charge for carryons and allow checked bags for free.
Carryons are by far the best experience for a passenger - your bag is there with you and you don’t have to arrive at the airport early, nor wait around at baggage claim. All business and frequent travelers would pay extra for this.
Meanwhile, carryons are worse for everyone else, and for the airline! They massively slow down the boarding and deboarding process while you wait for people to heft their massive suitcases up into the bins.
Fewer carryons means faster turnarounds which means more profit.
Thank you for listening to my talk.
- hattmall 1y agoHonestly that's pretty brilliant. But I think the airlines have some incentive to encourage travelers to carry less weight overall.
- charlie0 1y agoCharging for it is the incentive.
- rogerrogerr 1y agoAirlines make a ton of money on cargo (those planes flying with one or two people on them during Covid? Full of paying cargo). It’s somewhere around 10% of revenue, depending on who you ask. Carryons use space in the top half of the tube; checked bags use space in the bottom half of the tube where they’d much rather put a $10k pallet of stuff than 25 checked bags.
- d1sxeyes 1y agoGreat idea to charge for carry-on. We will go ahead and do that. After careful consideration, we have decided not to implement your second suggestion. Thank you for your feedback!
- mc32 1y agoI'd be totally okay for them to charge by total weight/mass (passenger + luggage, etc.) Women would come on top (on average) call it even with regard to haircuts --children also get cheaper seats and it's the fairest system even if they have to set a "floor". The more weight or mass the more fuel is consumed.