Sunday, June 15, 2008

Luggage fee's

Its hard to believe but its true, we will now be charged for bringing cloths with us by the airlines. Some airlines will let you bring 1 bag, per person, for free while others are charging $15 your first bag (wait for it...EACH WAY!), your second bag will cost you $25 each way and $100 each way for your third bag. And that's not the only extra fee's you will be paying. There's fuel surcharges, airport taxes, 9/11 taxes and sometimes a departure fee. What is a departure fee! When I purchase a airline ticket I don't think I should have to pay them extra to actually depart! And if all of that is not bad enough, half the time you won't get any food and the other half you wish you hadn't. These airlines are nickel and diming us to death. Where does it end?

Back in "the day" travelers use to take a extra empty suitcase with them so they would have something to bring back items in they purchased while abroad. But with these luggage fee's travelers will have to get creative on ways to save on these fee's. If we only bring one bag where will we put all the stuff we buy? Here is our solution: before you leave go to a second hand store and buy some nice, but cheap cloths to wear on your trip. Leave those cloths and fill your suit case with the things you bought while on vacation.

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