Lauren Alexander has come down from Boston for the weekend and is standing outside the downtown airport in Toronto. “Ridiculous” is how she describes such extra expenses. It feels like a trick,” the 24-year-old recalls. “You buy the ticket, you think it’s going to be less expensive, then you have to pay $200 (£148) extra [to bring a suitcase].”
Ms Alexander chose to bring a tiny rucksack as hand baggage in order to avoid paying the cost. 27-year-old Sage Riley concurs, telling the BBC, “It can be pricey.
Commercial flights provided checked baggage, seat preference, and meals as standard. However, Jay Sorensen of the US aviation consultant IdeaWorks claims that everything changed with the emergence of low-cost carriers.
FlyBe, a low-cost airline based in the United Kingdom, is said to have been the first airline in the world to charge customers for bag check-in in 2006. A pre-booked piece of luggage cost £2, and if the buyer hadn’t paid in advance, it cost £4. At least on shorter trips, other low-cost airlines soon followed suit, as did the so-called flag carriers or more established airlines.
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