The Aum group traveled with chemicals and mining equipment on which they paid over $20,000 in excess baggage fees.
Airlines: First it was the baggage fees.
The most obvious way to avoid excess baggage fees is to travel light.
It's good for the local economy as well as avoiding baggage fees.
British Airways also wanted to boost its ancillary revenue with higher baggage fees during 2007.
It costs less than excess baggage fees, and they have never had a problem.
I've successfully urged Delta to reimburse military members who were charged excessive baggage fees.
A few years before baggage fees were first introduced, Heys created the xCase, a very light weight carry-on.
The baggage fee will also be waived if the cityhopper flight is just 1 leg of an extended journey/intercontinental connection.
With baggage fees what they are, you know to pack light for a flight.