Here’s What Major U.S. Airlines Now Charge for Baggage Fees American Airlines has just joined Delta, United, Southwest, Alaska, and JetBlue in raising checked baggage fees. When I was on Rich DeMuro’s podcast last week, I told him that once… Johnny Jet , April 10, 2026
4 Savvy Ways to Save Over $100 on Overweight Baggage Fees This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. For an explanation of our… Johnny Jet , June 16, 2025
Southwest Airlines Is About to Start Charging for Bags: Here’s How to Avoid the Fees Yesterday, while I was picking up my kids from school, I overheard one of the mothers tell another that she has so much to do including booking all of her… Johnny Jet , May 20, 2025
Passenger rips wheels off suitcase to avoid paying low-fare carrier’s outrageous fee These days, airlines will do anything to make money – especially low-fare carriers that sell ridiculously inexpensive tickets and then try to make it up by charging for everything from… Johnny Jet , May 22, 2024
United Airlines Agent Suspected of Scamming Passenger Over Bag Weight This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. For an explanation of our… Johnny Jet , April 15, 2024
Gate Agents Are Cracking Down on Carry-Ons – Here’s What Travelers Can Do About It This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. For an explanation of our… Johnny Jet , March 16, 2024
Flying Spirit, Frontier or Allegiant Airlines? This is the Bag You Need So You Don’t Get Charged Extra This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. For an explanation of our… Johnny Jet , February 19, 2024
Don’t Fly Frontier Airlines Unless You Know This This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. For an explanation of our… Johnny Jet , December 1, 2023
12 Ways to Save Money on Baggage Fees No one likes to get nickeled and dimed and the airlines, especially low fare carriers, have made quite a business doing it. And nickels and dimes are an understatement. As… Johnny Jet , June 14, 2023
Infuriating: Frontier Airlines Busted for Incentivizing Gate Agents to Enforce Outrageous Baggage Fees If you subscribe to my free travel tip newsletter, then you know that I often warn travelers about booking low fare carriers like Allegiant, Frontier and Spirit Airlines and a… Johnny Jet , March 11, 2023
How to Save 40% on Hawaiian Airlines Baggage Fees (And It Doesn’t Require Getting a Credit Card) Over the summer, when airlines and airports were really struggling with managing customers’ baggage (I know, the understatement of the year), I wrote several posts on how to avoid the… Johnny Jet , January 13, 2023
How To Avoid Paying Baggage Fees For Your Surfboard Surf’s up! Living in Southern California, I have countless friends who surf often, including when they travel. However, one thing they don’t like is trekking their board to and from… Johnny Jet , May 10, 2021
Is United Airlines Out of Their Minds? UPDATE: It was a glitch! Thank goodness. From United “We had a temporary issue impacting prices shown on the baggage calculator. This didn’t impact the actual price customers were charged,… Johnny Jet , April 8, 2021
United Follows JetBlue in Raising Checked Baggage Fees After JetBlue surprisingly raised its baggage fees by $5 a few days ago, I was quoted in an Associated Press (AP) article saying, “unfortunately, all it takes is one major airline… Johnny Jet , August 31, 2018
