So I went to check in online, and it asked me to check some boxes for what luggage I wanted to bring on board. I did, and it told me that to carry on both a backpack and a roller bag it’ll be $45, or $65 if I try to play games and they have to check stuff at the gate.
I said fuck that, and unchecked some boxes. It said I couldn’t check in without putting a credit card on file, that they would charge if there were any issues and they wound up needing to charge me for my luggage. It wouldn’t let me continue without putting a credit card on file and checking a box that said they could charge me for my luggage, if they felt it was excessive.
I said fuck that and decided to check in at the airport. I threw all my stuff in a backpack to remove any wiggle room, and the kiosk said the same thing. I talked to one of the people, and she said it’s a new policy. I pointed out that I paid for my ticket, she could see I had only a backpack, and I wanted to get in the airplane. She told me to go talk to the guy at the end.
I talked to the guy at the end, politely, and eventually he printed a boarding pass for me. But you should know they’re up to some bullshit.
Its a good thing this hold over from immediately after the attacks on 9/11 happened is still in effect or the terrorist might have won.
Not to hijack the thread but which airlines is least likely to put you on a plane made by boeing?
For US carriers off the top of my head, Spirit and frontier are all airbus fleets. Allegiant has one 737 in their fleet I think and is otherwise Airbus. JetBlue and Breeze have no Boeing products. All the big airlines have lots of Boeing products.
I will walk to where I need to go before I fly spirit or frontier.
Usually European companies prefer Airbus. Lufthansa is usually a safe bet.
US companies? Best of luck.
I’ve never flown in an Airbus, in the EU. It’s all Boeing or tiny propeller planes.
shorthaul or longhaul?
I think its about 50% on Europe to Europe flights
That matches with our experience from the US to the EU. Long haul is about 50/50 IIRC, you have to hunt a little bit to be sure the flights you book are Airbus
Mostly short, but the few longer flights ive been on were also Boeing
You have to check each flight for long haul. My SO did a round trip from the US west coast to Germany recently for work and something like 2/3 of the Lufthansa flights were Airbus, the rest were Boeing
We’ve had mixed results with Lufthansa. It was absolutely stellar but they’ve had their share of avoidable sadness.
We like icelandair now because of (normally) the overnight stop near keflavik and they’re usually really pleasant people.