I am surprised that no one would help her with the extra $30 so she could check both bags initially. I wondered if she asked people around her to help out. Even with $5 each, she only needed to find 6 people. But the whole story is just ridiculous. The airlines could turn $60 into $210 (change fees + baggage fees) then to $1000 for re-booking. Absurd. What airlines is this? U.S. Airways. Who flies this piece of shit airlines nowadays?
Wessigner had nothing but an airline ticket and $30 in her pocket. The U.S. Airways agent checking her in told her that it was cost $60 to check both her bags. Weissinger offered to pay the fee when she arrived in Idaho, but the agent declined. She also offered to leave one bag there at the San Francisco Airport. That, the agent explained, would be in violation of security regulations.
Wessigner’s next move was to try to scare up the full fee by calling friends in the area. She came up empty, and by the time she’d finished working the phones, she missed her flight. That’s when things started to get truly Kafka-esque. To get a new flight “she’d have to pay her bag fees plus $150 in change fees,” Finney notes. Without a place to stay nearby, Weissinger stayed the night at the airport. She awoke to more bad news: U.S. Airlines explained that, since she couldn’t pay a change fee, she’d have to book a new flight from scratch. That would run about $1,000.
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