Baggage fees

It’s getting harder each year to find an airline that doesn’t reach into your pocket over and over again for extra handouts when you’re buying a flight ticket. Naturally, that makes people angry and we start looking for ways around the problem. There are different tiers of anger though: some of the most hated airline …

Spirit Airlines is the airline that seems to invite everyone to hate it, partly because of doublespeak press releases that accompany every customer-unfriendly move. Here’s the one they put up at the beginning of the decade when first announcing new bag fees. “In order to continue reducing fares even further and offering customers the option …

If you fly to Panama on American Airlines, you will not pay to check a bag on your economy class international flight. If you fly to Costa Rica you will. Flying to South America with a checked bag does not incur a fee—“except Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.” For El Salvador it might cost you …

I just took a flight for a long weekend on Allegiant Air and managed to do it without paying any baggage fees. Anyone who has flown this bare-bones airline knows that is not an easy task. The only luggage you can bring along without paying luggage fees is a bag measuring a maximum of 15 …

Can you name more than one or two Mexican airlines? Did you know they fly to more than 100 destinations, including many in the USA? It turns out there are a whole bunch of them and if you’re looking for cheap flights to south of the border, the best Mexican airlines can often get you …