Airlines 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 reve

Airlines 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.