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Ryan Coke · 10-01-2014, 09:02 PM

I still say it isn't the lack of competition, it IS the competition that created this. If an airline like allegiant draws people across the border with cheap base fares then charges for everything else, that is what spawned this idea. If consumers had only used the airlines that kept free bags, and paid extra for that being included, then it would have stayed the way it was. But in many cases people voted by buying fares at airlines who had brought in the less inclusive pricing.

Again, I don't like it. But there are reasons this has come to be, and it is not lack of competition. Quite the opposite in many ways.

10-01-2014, 09:02 PM	#140
Ryan Coke #1 Goaltender Join Date: Feb 2003 Exp:	I still say it isn't the lack of competition, it IS the competition that created this. If an airline like allegiant draws people across the border with cheap base fares then charges for everything else, that is what spawned this idea. If consumers had only used the airlines that kept free bags, and paid extra for that being included, then it would have stayed the way it was. But in many cases people voted by buying fares at airlines who had brought in the less inclusive pricing. Again, I don't like it. But there are reasons this has come to be, and it is not lack of competition. Quite the opposite in many ways.