Southwest Airlines Is Getting Rid of Another Beloved Perk — Here's What’s Changing and When
The airline’s latest change comes after its July 2024 announcement that it will be ending its infamous open seating policy
Southwest Airlines dared to be different. Now it’s just like everyone else.
Frequent fliers are in mourning after Southwest said it will stop allowing two free checked bags for everyone, putting an end to a half-century perk.
Southwest Airlines To Scrap Major Perk
Southwest Airlines is set to start charging for checked bags for most passengers for the first time in its history.
Bags fly for a fee: Southwest Airlines cancels its free checked luggage perk
The carrier announced Tuesday that it will begin charging certain passengers to check their luggage on flights, a significant shift at the company long prized by consumers for its perks.
Southwest Airlines to start charging for checked bags
Last year, the Dallas-based airline announced it was doing away with another tradition, the open-boarding system.
Southwest Airlines Just Axed This Travel Perk, but There Are Still Ways to Get It for Free
Southwest Airlines will begin charging for checked bags at the end of May. Amid sinking profits, the budget airline announced in a press release Tuesday that it's ending its long-standing policy of allowing passengers to check two bags for free,
Devoted Southwest flyer from Colorado upset about new bag policy: "They're just going to be same as every other flight"
A policy in existence for all Southwest Airlines passengers for over 50 years will soon be ended. Denver International Airport's second biggest carrier (behind United) is re-doing its bag policy, meaning the end of the popular "bags fly free" mantra for Southwest.
Bags Will No Longer Fly Free on Southwest Airlines
Southwest will start charging passengers for checked luggage and sell basic economy tickets, as the maverick airline becomes more like its rivals.
Why Southwest Airlines is getting rid of free checked bags
Southwest Airlines will begin charging customers a fee to check bags, abandoning a decades-long practice that executives had described last fall as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals.
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