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Delta said Tuesday that the first bag checked on a domestic flight will now incur a $35 fee. The charge for a second bag rose from $40 to $45. Delta last raised bag fees for domestic flights in 2018.
The rule also applies to checked bag fees if your luggage is delayed by more than 12 hours, or if an airline does not provide extra services that a passenger already purchased, like in-flight Wi-Fi.
Baggage prices have become a key source of revenue for airlines. In the first three quarters of 2023, U.S. airlines took in nearly $5.5 billion in checked-bag fees, according to the Bureau of ...
2024 Delta Air Lines disruption; Date: July 19–25, 2024 ( – ) Location: United States: Type: Flight cancellations: Cause: Computer system failure due to corrupted systems following 2024 CrowdStrike incident: Perpetrator: Delta Air Lines: Outcome: Over 7,000 Delta flights cancelled affecting plans of 1.3 million passengers
A flight delay occurs when an airline flight takes off and/or lands later than its scheduled time. The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) considers a flight to be delayed when it is 15 minutes later than its scheduled time. A flight cancellation occurs when the airline does not operate the flight at all for a certain reason.
Hand baggage allowance is a topic frequently discussed in the context of commercial air travel. On the one hand, passengers may want to have more of their possessions at hand during flight, skip the often time-consuming baggage claim process, and avoid the risk of having their checked baggage lost or damaged.
Three days after a computer update problem caused more than 5,000 flight cancellations around the world in a single day, things are pretty much back to normal — except at Delta Air Lines.
IdeaWorks, a travel consulting firm, predicted fees will become the norm by the end of 2019 and globally thereafter. [6] The 23 largest airlines in the United States reported earning $4.6 billion in baggage fees in 2017. [7] This increased to $33 billion in baggage fees for 2023, and increase of 15 percent over the previous year. [8]