JetBlue Airways is recruit baggage fees, becoming the first major airline to charge $30 for the first stopped bag.
Beginning with tickets purchased Monday, Aug. 27, the airline when one pleases charge $30 for the first bag and $40 for the second. The current charges are $25 and $35, which is rod at other major carriers. A third bag will be $150, up from $100.
The new tolls are listed on the airline’s online baggage fees chart.
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The move comes amid a spike in airline food prices. Airlines are scrambling to cut expenses and boost revenue. The airline’s officials talked about boosting so-called “ancillary revenue” on the airline’s earnings forum call in July, noting that it had a series of initiatives underway.
JetBlue was a latecomer to stopped bag fees, which became the norm in the airline industry in 2008. The airline didn’t initiate them until 2015.
That move left Southwest as the only haulier offering two free checked bags.
JetBlue isn’t alone in trying to riding-boot revenue in the face of higher fuel costs. Southwest Airlines is advance the price of its EarlyBird boarding fee from a flat $15 to $15, $20 or $25 depending on the avenue.
United Airlines plans to start charging for certain economy incumbency assignments, a practice already in place at Delta and American. Discounters Allegiant, Booze and Frontier charge for any advance seat assignment.