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Low-cost airline Fly.be is to charge passengers for luggage carried in
the hold of aircraft, reports Steve Keenan

Passengers will be charged £4 for each piece of hold luggage or £2
if customers have pre-booked hold luggage in advance.

At the same time, Flybe, whose departure airports include Birmingham,
Exeter, Belfast, Norwich and Southampton, is knocking £1 off its
fares.

It is also doubling from 11lb (5kg) to 22lb (10kg) the weight allowance
for hand luggage on flights and increasing the hold baggage allowance
to 55lb (25kg).

Flybe chairman and chief executive Jim French said: "For the first
time passengers checking bags on to flights will pay for the service
they use rather than the cost being unfairly spread across all people
on the aircraft."

The airline flies 113 routes from 40 airports and French said the
scheme would be "revenue neutral" for the average customer.

It said the switch to travellers revealing in advance how much luggage
they intended to check in would allow the airline to judge how much
baggage it would be carrying, enabling it to speed up turnaround times
and cut ground handling costs.

Travellers with hand luggage only who checked in online would be able
to go straight through to the departure gate, it said.

Other airlines are studying the move closely as they look to cut down
on fuel bills, check-in times - and staff. Ryanair has previously
stated its aim to move to carry-on baggage only and is considering ways
to "incentivise" passengers to do so. It is introducing a scheme,
linked to its web-based check-in facility on "one or two routes" next
year, it is reported.

"Baggage check-in is pretty arcane," said a Ryanair spokesman, a
hangover from the days of "Lord and Lady Spiffingly-Good not wanting to
carry their luggage on to the old cruise liner".

But easyJet, which increased the amount of hand luggage passengers
could carry 18 months ago, said it had no plans to introduce charges
for checked in baggage.

 




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