Tiger Aiways ponders carry-on bag fee

[Harry G]

Firstly the US....

Flew across the US and watched the morons that they can be best described literally trying to force a square peg into a round hole..eventually on one flight I actually got up and asked the moron how more times they where going to try and jam the bag into the overhead..eventually the brain dead cabin crew member thought.......yeah.......... it don't fit ... it better go underneath.

The charges......... they are like the banks.
The banks encouraged you to use your credit cards and with time, not to go into the branch and with that came the inevitable staff redundancies........ then bang.........in came all the charges for everything and there was/is not much you can do about .........except now, the banks are getting people back because the public has had enough so lets cut the crap.....
The airlines advertise cheap fares with carry on only and have done for the last few years. Now you are used to travelling light, they want to get into your pocket because it is all going onto the plane in the cabin........
Greed simple greed and whoever does not do this will be the big winner.....go Qantas, Jetstar, Virgin...........
Charging for the toilet. No big deal........you are near sitting on a near toilet seat now when you fly with these budget carriers so big deal.......
The cabin crew will have to carry more $ 2 coins........

[Andrew P]

so is Virgin Blue

Virgin Blue says it currently has no plans to charge for either toilets or overhead lockers.

per other thread

[KatieY]

Whats the point of charging for Carry On ?

[Greg McDonald]

1) Make more money for the airline.

2) Make customers think about how much they try to carry on.

[Sarah C]

Originally Posted by KatieY

Whats the point of charging for Carry On ?

Speeds up the boarding/deboarding process because people are not blocking aisles putting 2/3 bags in the overhead compartment (no one bothers using the space under thier feet)

It subconciously will reduce the carry ons, with effects such as less total baggage being carried by the customer, which means there is less weight.

Once they get this online checkin working soon I will give them 6 months before they expect us to pay for the service, same as Ryanair..

How long until we start seeing in flight lotteries, seems to have worked well for FR.

[Raymond Rowe]

Maybe if the airlines had better baggage delivery instead of waiting at time up to 30 minutes for luggage people would not carry on so much overhead luggage.