United’s New Baggage Policy
United Airlines annouced that they intend to charge passengers for their checked bags that exceed one. As a pet travel agent-one who works exclusively with pet travel I agree with the new policy. When you ship a pet as ‘cargo’ the rates are based on dimensional volume-how much space is used for the crate inside the aircraft belly. Anyone who has shipped a pet via cargo knows that the rates are pricey. When you travel and see people checking in their bags that look big enough to contain a twin sized mattress, why should they get to pay nothing when you pay $300+ to ship a 3 LB Maltese puppy on an international flight?
Maybe next they will ban all carry-on bags that exceed 5 lbs…wouldn’t that be cool? Just think how much faster they could board and deplane the passengers!
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
as a flight attendant i wish they would ban the oversized carryons! im sick of people giving me dirty looks when i dont want to lift up their bags of rocks they themselves cant lift.
but about the dogs, that terrible that they charge so much…