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Re:Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines by monksy on Friday October 12, 2018 @08:07PM (#18205567)
Without fees, the airline is minimizing the cost and you're cost averaging. With the fee-based structure, it's really a massive cost increase and a service/quality decrease.

From what you said it's abit like saying that you don't want to subsidize the police via your taxes because you never use them.

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Re:Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines by tomp on Saturday October 13, 2018 @05:51AM (#18207248)
There are freerider benefits of having police. There’s no freerider benefits of other people packing more.
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Re:Trump Just Signed a Law That Changes Life Aboard Airlines by rayiner on Friday October 12, 2018 @10:46PM (#18206109)
Spirit airlines makes like 10% profit margin. Forcing them to absorb baggage fees isn't going to come out of their margins, it's going to come out of increases in base fare.

As to subsidies: you usually can't control whether you need the police or not. You generally can control how much you pack. My wife and I didn't even pack a check-in on when we took the kid to Disney World recently. Why should I pay more for people who have to have … whatever the hell it is that people pack in a checked bag for a domestic flight.

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