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One of the trends of 2020, besides airlines cancelling flights, cutting back on routes and asking for bailouts is to increase passenger baggage fees. JetBlue Airways was the “trendsetter” in 2018 when they raised baggage fees by $5. Most other airlines happily followed the leader at that point as they rushed to match JetBlue on the fee increases. JetBlue got the party started again in January of this year when they raised the fee for a first checked bag to $35 from $30 and the second bag to $45 from $40.
United Airlines decided to follow this strategy in February as well. Not to be outdone, last week American Airlines upped the checked…