Washington – U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says that if airlines don’t start reimbursing their rising fees when passengers’ bags are lost, he’ll introduce a bill to force the issue.
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The Democrat says that under a new rule airlines would only have to reimburse their baggage fees if the luggage is lost forever. That rule is scheduled to take effect in August.
The fees range from $25 to $100.
Schumer tells The Associated Press that airlines should voluntarily refund the fees upon request to passengers when their checked bags don’t arrive when they do.
He says only a small fraction of lost bags are never returned. Most show up days later.
But if airlines don’t make the move, he says, he’ll introduce a bill to require the refunds
nothing accomplished except politics.there is no” free lunch”if the airlines are forced to refund baggage fees they will add new fees to recoup their losses.
#1 not one airline has that sing showing the last bag has arrived #2 when your bag gets lost the airline refunds you upto $1000 on demedtic tickets and upto $3000 on international flight also depends on the airline but every airline give altleast $700 for a lost bag after 90 days of arrivel date if the bag is still not retuned. The system the airlines work with our bags are very sefisticated and a good way (the workers trow a lot our bags but exapt of that) and bags don’t get to much lost according to how many bags they handle a day for example american airlines handled in 2010 over 10 million bags but thay only had 5000 lost bag claims over 30 days
Wish the headline said “SENATORS Could Pay When COUNTRY IS Lost”.