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Just had the horrible experience once again. Why is this still allowed?

I later found out that shipping my stuff was cheaper that checking in a bag..

Is that domestic? I keep hearing this but every time I look for international flights it’s never true.

I feel like we should parse these complaints as "I flew the cheapest airline that unbundles everything, and paying to re-bundle the stuff I wanted made the price higher".

Yeah, this is it. People who are used to having their ticket price subsidised by other people who don’t have luggage are angry that those other people are no longer subsidising their ticket.

All this, despite the fact that the same ticket with luggage today, adjusted for inflation, is significantly cheaper than it was 20, 40, 60 years ago etc.

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