Southwest Airlines will begin charging customers to check their bags, ending a long-standing “bags fly free” policy that inspired loyalty and differentiated the brand from its competitors.

As recently as Southwest's investor day in late September, airline executives described the bags-fly-free as the most important feature in setting Southwest apart from rivals. All other leading U.S.

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“Bags fly free” was a policy so sacrosanct that Southwest trademarked the phrase and devoted a section of a book celebrating its 50th anniversary to it.

Southwest Airlines will begin charging customers a fee to check bags, abandoning a decades-long practice that executives had described last fall as key to differentiating the budget carrier from ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Southwest Airlines will no longer allow bags to fly free. The airline announced Tuesday it will begin charging some customers who check luggage in May. The airline will continue ...

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A human body caught in fishing nets 40 miles off the Massachusetts coast last week had been embalmed and appeared consistent with a burial at sea, authorities said Monday. The state’s Office of ...

A civilian aircraft flew into the no-fly zone over the property at around 1:15 p.m. Sunday, according to a statement. The fighter jets fired flares to warn the pilots to move out of the area ...