In a area of the market where the customer is often looking for fares in single digits this gives the opportunity to save even more money by limiting what you carry to very small amounts of handluggage. What that in turn does for the airline is save money on baggage handlers and fuel, which then gives them low enough costs to be able to offer said single digit fares. At some of the fares we are now seeing loco airlines can’t really afford to include anything in the price other than the seat.
The evidence from the loco’s who have introduced this already is that it does work.
Those of us who say we would rather pay as part of the fare and have a normal check-in baggage service presumably don’t fall into the ‘just want the cheapest ticket’ part of the market.
1L.
A fair point you make OneLeft…but for loyal Monarch customers, this will not go down very well. As far as I am aware, at present the fee you pay at the time of your booking includes a ‘free’ weight allowance of 20kgs…and obviously people are prepared to pay it at the moment, but if they now have the hassle of having to pre-book their luggage at an additional cost of £3.99 or paying £10 at the airport on the day…they are going to be far from impressed, and as a result, potentially less loyal towards Monarch in the future!
And just for the record…I am not a loyal Monarch customer!:D
Those of us who say we would rather pay as part of the fare and have a normal check-in baggage service presumably don’t fall into the ‘just want the cheapest ticket’ part of the market.
I fall into this category because I actually like the odd frill and have no objection to paying that little bit more for an overall better service…but I would rather pay for everything in one go than have to worry about being ‘pre-booking’ stuff in advance or paying a higher cost on the day of departure.
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