Day: July 22, 2015

A woman checks in her luggage at the ticket counter. (Photo: Courtesy of FutureTravelExperience.com)

Bill Attempts to Discount Baggage Fees

Are you packing lighter? Dreading figuring out the jigsaw puzzle of cramming everything you need for your weeklong vacation into your tiny carry-on just to avoid checking luggage? Fear no more! Well soon.

That ridiculous baggage fee that starts at $25 and can go up to $100 or more that we’ve all had to live with since – well so long ago that we barely remember the days when checking your bag was free – might get chopped into nearly a fifth of what it is now. How? you ask. Just say thanks to Representative John Mica, R-Fla.