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Originally Posted by Will H
Forced into doing what things?
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I was speaking in general rather than specifically to airlines.
Harry gave some good examples. For example banks forcing people to use cards to lower costs, then once everyone is using cards starting to introduce fee's to use cards. Whilst of course banks incur costs to provide this service, back in my day banks recovered costs by lending the money you banked with them to other people. Today they still lend your money or invest it, but they now also charge you for the service they give. Then when their investments fail and the profit to the shareholders drop they raise the fees!
With airlines many, especially the US ones have been encouraging people to bring more and more on-board baggage over the past few years to save them the cost of handling the baggage. Indeed many have installed larger bins to do this, and have much higher allowances than non us airlines. AA for example allows 18KG of cabin baggage, yet Qantas and most non us airlines the limit is about 7KG (per bag). Now the airlines want to charge for the mess THEY created. So no matter what you do you have to pay. At least with the legacy airlines the cost is included and is not disgusied, as it seems to be for many LCC's.