Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
Don't want to start the "Fees are good/bad" debate.
All I am asking is since fees started at your company, have people been using more carry-ons? If so, has this affected weight and balance calculations ( are the planes "lighter" on paper for example)?
Only on paper… only on paper. Now the overheads are always full. Those bags that don't fit in the overhead have to go into the pits. At the end of the day in the spirit of avoiding bag check charges with an average of 180 passengers per flight on vacation runs the count has gone down from an average of one bag per passenger to about 75 to 100.
A few months back, our carrier has come up with the perfect scheme to fleece our passengers for more dough. A gate check bag disclaimer is on their website. Carryon bags the look suspiciously larger than life are put into the overhead bin tester at the boarding door. If the bag does not fit, then the passenger has to pony up more dough to check the bag onto the jet. From what I’ve witnessed it’s not a pretty sight.