News and notes from around the interweb:
- WaPo opinion piece: paying more fees to airlines, and having them lose your luggage, is a good thing
- Bakkt has offered free Wyndham points and free Choice points before. They’re back with free Wyndham points
- Washington State residents get priority Main Cabin 1 boarding on Delta plus 1 SkyMile per Seattle Seahawks passing yard during the 2022-2023 season.
- TAP Air Portugal Cyber Attack
- Plastiq.com will no longer let you pay auto loans with Visa credit cards. Mastercard still works for this (as it does for mortgages).
- Turns out it was a cop stealing money at the Fort Lauderdale airport
@Gary, should there be a link for the Plastiq.com story?
I don’t think that WaPo opinion is anywhere near faithfully summarized here. It’s talking about bags that must be checked due to their size.
We’re going to be trying to do carry-on only to Europe in a few days. SO insists, no European lost luggage for us. We’ll see. It’s summer, so lightweight, casual clothing, only 10 days, and we’ll have access to laundry in a house we’ll be staying in. Still, I’m still packing a collapsible bag in the side pocket for the return.
Winter trip – fancy dinners, heavy clothing, no. Full size bag. Maybe two after buying Xmas gifts. Besides which, AA paid pretty well for my delayed luggage. Only next time, I make sure I have more emergency clothing. Maybe a small carry-on between us and a checked bag each.
I think your headline is a leap too far, Gary.
Some people don’t mind the fee plus the (very small) chance the airline will loose/misdirect one’s bag for the chance to bring/transport more things.
Unfortunately I have to check bags, too many items that give TSA fits that I need for work. I only travel inside the US. Last year I did over 40,000 miles and Delta never missed a beat. I got my checked bag on time every time. I even had a couple of last minute rerouted flights and I still got my bag. In one case it was routed differently from me, but still was at the airport in less than an hour. Unlike the last 3 times I flew AA and they misplaced/ misrouted bags on all 3 trips. I use Tile Trackers. It came in handy with AAs inability to find bags.
Still on team carry-on only.
I can’t bear lugging around extra bags, encountering stairs where you thought there were none, and there being no assistance where you would have otherwise tipped gererously for it.
I put the idea to the test recently, taking a 4 wheeler cabin bag plus a smaller bag which slipped oner the extended cabin bag handle. Each bag, technically one cabin bag and one personal item/bag, weighed 7kg each, the allowable combined weight if I was asked to weigh either (didn’t!). I have a small digital scale (35 grams) to check.
As this was a casual overseas vacation of 10 days, I packed a few clothing items I rarely wear and spruced them up for one final wearing, and left a trail of them behind, freeing up space for possible new purchases, or not.
The feeling of liberation was great!
i say give free checked bags and charge for carry on bags. lets see the boarding and tsa process speed up.