American to charge for FIRST checked bag.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by BDBopper

If you are going to nickel and dime me raise the price of the ticket instead. I bet they'd get more money that way. If you are going to charge for checked luggage than less people are going to check luggage and pay the fee to check it. They will do anything possible to get around it. If you increase the fare 15 bucks than you will be getting more money outright, even from the people who are not checking their luggage plus you are being honest and upfront.

Except that, as Alex rightly pointed out, people buy the cheapest ticket they see. Period. So if your ticket is $15 more than your competitor's, you're going to get fewer people on that plane and it won't matter that the ones that are on there are paying $15 more. They'd rather have 300 people, 50 of which pay $15 less because they didn't check a bag, than have only 200 people, each paying $15 more.