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American Airlines’ New Baggage Fee No Big Deal

May 24, 2008 - 12:58 am - by Annie Jacobsen
Whitehall
2008-05-25 13:01:00

I have to agree with Ed. The result will be overhead compartments too full for everyone’s carry-ons. They will tell you to put your bag under the seat in front of you in the volume your feet would normally occupy.

What got me was the response of AA’s retired CEO. He essentially said that prior efforts at unspoken price fixing failed when some airline failed to go along with the price increase. Like they are all supposed to take the price signal and act as a cohesive (or colluding) group. He sounded surprised that the free market worked in the airline business!