ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO US AIRWAYS, LEFT, CHARGE $25 FOR THE FIRST BAG, $35 FOR A SECOND. Sunday, April 4, 2010
Last updated: Sunday April 4, 2010, 12:03 PM
BY NANCY TREJOS
Wire Service
THE WASHINGTON POST
When she heard how much US Airways was going to charge to check her suitcase for a recent flight to Houston from Washington, D.C., Mary Barber took drastic action.
Got a bag weighing more than 50 pounds? That's $50 extra to fly American Airlines. At the check-in counter agent's suggestion, Barber ran into a store at the Reagan National terminal and snapped up a neon-green nylon bag on sale for $6. She stuffed what she could from her suitcase into it. The remainder went into a cloth Whole Foods tote she had packed in her bag.
