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Articles tagged “baggage”

Airlines

Can a Universal Luggage Size Make the Carry-on Process Better?

Considering the low margins they make flying us where we're headed, airlines are smart to seek other sources of revenue through travel-related merchandise.

Marisa Garcia, Skift | 9 years ago

Can a Universal Luggage Size Make the Carry-on Process Better?

Airlines

Do Luggage Guarantees Really Matter?

This short-term promotion has half-baked written all over it.

Grant Martin, Skift | 9 years ago

Do Luggage Guarantees Really Matter?

Airlines

Frontier Airlines’ Sweetheart Deal With Priceline a Boon to Flyers With Baggage

Frontier may have discovered that its attempt to get more direct purchases wasn't worth lost business from customers turned off by the $100 baggage charge, or it may hope to score popularity points by bucking the extra-fees trend. Either way, this is a win for Priceline, which now boasts one more reason to book through its site instead of the airline's.

Eliza Ronalds-Hannon , Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

The new luggage from Airbus that wants to talk to your iPhone

Your baggage may go missing thanks to a carrier who is flying an Airbus plane, but at least you'll be able to track where that bag is thanks to Airbus.

Skift | 11 years ago

The new luggage from Airbus that wants to talk to your iPhone

Airlines

Study suggests U.S. passengers are learning to accept baggage fees

Customers are still looking at the ticket price first, as opposed to the total cost of the flight with the bags they want to take. That is a learning process, but it's not certain if this will turn into full acceptance of the fees.

Los Angeles Times | 11 years ago

Study suggests U.S. passengers are learning to accept baggage fees

Airlines

The airline industry saved $2.1 billion in 2012 because it lost fewer bags

All the thought behind smart technology is a great thing, but there's little mention in the study of the effect baggage fees have on lost bags -- the fewer checked, the fewer lost.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 11 years ago

The airline industry saved $2.1 billion in 2012 because it lost fewer bags

Airlines

Southwest wants extra help handling baggage — minus the unions

When you make your baggage handlers central to your advertising campaign you need to be ready for them to take a stand when they see their power being weakened.

Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun | 11 years ago