Morbyd
Moderator
...suck!!
I was just looking at the baggage charges they tack on for every trip now.
For our Moscow-US flight, we'll be charged $150
if any bag goes over 23kg.
Equally offensive, for our intra-US flight for New Years, we'll have to pay an extra $15/bag regardless of weight ($65 if one goes over the 23kg limit)
So basically this means carrying a minimum of clothes for a 2.5 week stay in 2 different climate zones
And then there's the Christmas presents and the stuff we'll be bringing back after shopping the post-holiday sales, which undoubtedly will mean a 3rd bag 
It was $50/bag for the overweight last year. Annoying but tolerable.
The major U.S. airlines are so unbelievably bloated, inefficient and incompetent that they keep cutting back service (most domestic flights now sell food a la carte!) and boosting charges and they're all still on the verge of bankruptcy. Yet somehow the low cost carriers manage not to fleece their customers and still make money.
Airlines in question are Delta and US Airways, by the way.
Rant over.
Thanks for listening
I was just looking at the baggage charges they tack on for every trip now.
For our Moscow-US flight, we'll be charged $150
if any bag goes over 23kg. Equally offensive, for our intra-US flight for New Years, we'll have to pay an extra $15/bag regardless of weight ($65 if one goes over the 23kg limit)
So basically this means carrying a minimum of clothes for a 2.5 week stay in 2 different climate zones
And then there's the Christmas presents and the stuff we'll be bringing back after shopping the post-holiday sales, which undoubtedly will mean a 3rd bag It was $50/bag for the overweight last year. Annoying but tolerable.
The major U.S. airlines are so unbelievably bloated, inefficient and incompetent that they keep cutting back service (most domestic flights now sell food a la carte!) and boosting charges and they're all still on the verge of bankruptcy. Yet somehow the low cost carriers manage not to fleece their customers and still make money.
Airlines in question are Delta and US Airways, by the way.
Rant over.
Thanks for listening
