(11 Mar 2025)
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Chicago – 11 March 2025
1. Southwest Airlines terminal at Midway International Airport
2. Various of flight board
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Catalina Flores, Southwest Airlines passenger:
"Well, I am kind of disappointed. And, you know, I don’t usually travel that much, but like being a senior citizen, I would really wish they wouldn’t do that because, I mean, it takes a lot out of what we really have to pay for the, you know, the flight tickets. So it’s going to be a huge on our pockets, you know, so I don’t like it."
4. Southwest Airlines sign
5. Southwest Airlines passenger tagging luggage
6. Southwest Airlines terminal at Midway International Airport
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Malone, Southwest Airlines passenger:
"That’s going to make it hard for people that live on a budget. I just become a widow this year. And it makes a big difference to see my son in Florida."
8. Southwest Airlines check in computer
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Catalina Flores, Southwest Airlines passenger:
"Per bag? $10 will be a lot. Hopefully no more than that, but I really don’t know because I’ve never paid. Like I said, I’ve always traveled with Southwest and that was a really good for us, convenience for us."
10. Southwest Airlines attendant checking in bag
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorothy Severson, Southwest Airlines passenger:
"I’d rather have the free checked bags, that’s for sure. Because that’s mainly one reason why I still fly Southwest, because I like it. Airfares are usually more reasonable and then you can check a bag for free. So I mean, I don’t even do two. Usually it’s just one."
12. Southwest Airlines terminal at Midway International Airport
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dorothy Severson, Southwest Airlines passenger:
"I think anything’s too high. So I know the other one charges like 30 bucks a bag. So hopefully it would be under that."
14. Southwest Airlines check in counter
STORYLINE:
Southwest Airlines will begin charging customers a fee to check bags.
It’s a significant change for the budget carrier, which built years of advertising campaigns around its policy of letting passengers check up to two bags for free.
The airline said on Tuesday that starting with bookings made on May 28, people who haven’t either reached the upper tiers of its Rapid Rewards loyalty program, bought a business class ticket or hold the airline’s credit card will have to pay for checked bags.
Southwest didn’t outline the fee schedule. In the fall, Southwest executives had described the bags-fly-free policy as key to differentiating the airline from its rivals.
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