Air Canada to remove free carry-on from basic economy

I have a few other ideas for the airlines to drive growth:<p>- discounted standing room only tickets (pending FAA approval) on short flights<p>- frequent 60 second ads on the seat-back monitors and in the bathrooms. You can pay extra for an ad-free experience<p>- help load and unload the checked luggage for extra loyalty points<p>- “no-rush” shipping for your checked luggage<p>- a Premium Elite Sky Safety ™®© program where you get more oxygen and priority assistance in the unlikely event of loss of cabin pressure or crash.<p>Editing to add: You get 2 free restroom passes with a frequent flier account. A Medallion, Star Alliance, Gold Preferred, or a close personal relationship with an active-duty servicemember or honorably discharged veteran entitles you to an additional one free pass. Timed usage fees apply afterwards. Terms and conditions apply. Void where prohibited by law. Consult your doctor if restroom usage during travel is appropriate for you.

Every air canada flight I have been on in the past few years always has the overhead bins full. I absolutely refuse to check in carry on because they have lost my bags or I have had to wait 2 hours for the bags to get on the carrousel.<p>I was thinking if we can somehow redesign air planes to have less under cargo space and more carry on space? I have never heard of the cargo store being full.

In theory this type of price differentiation is good since it allows extremely budget conscious folks to travel for very cheap with no-frills options while allowing others to travel with the same amenities for the same price except certain things are add-ons rather than built in to the price of the ticket.<p>The problem is that the universal implementation is that the &quot;no-frills&quot; tickets end up being the same price as they were before when they included things like carry on bags while tickets that include such &quot;luxuries&quot; end up even more expensive, leaving every single passenger feeling ripped off.<p>I feel like I&#x27;m missing something in this space since every airline is doing it but it makes no real sense from a consumer perspective. Price differentiation on extremely low-cost options makes sense, but only if it actually feels like a deal rather than paying the same price for a worse product, which is almost always what seems to happen.

The real price of airline fare has been going down for decades, and aside from the Covid dip it is the lowest it has ever been.<p>In part thanks to changes like this I almost never bring a carry on and it bothers me that I have to pay for it anyway on some airlines.

I am back to Cleveland from my vacation in Florida and this is the first time I refused to fly there, decided to spend 2 days driving with a night in Charlotte NC (didn&#x27;t realize it is such a modern and vibrant city) instead. It ended up cheaper even taking into account a night in Sheraton than economy tickets + baggage for 3 people. Plus we got to see so much more, experience something else rather standing in line, insane charges for baggage, security etc.

I would be happy to pay for carry-on if it meant guaranteed space.<p>On the other hand, checked bags should be free&#x2F;at a discount.<p>I have not understood why the pricing was inverse.

I do wonder when these restrictions will run into discrimination against those with disabilities. Many assistive devices and medications cannot be separated from the person and go in luggage because of temperature issues.

They should allow people with no carryon to board and deboard with priority.

WestJet already does this. Free personal item but must pay for carry on

Not surprised. It&#x27;s the people with the roller bags.

If we&#x27;re &quot;unbundling&quot;&#x2F;giving into &quot;free market&quot; nonsense in a highly regulated area, I just want to be able to pay reasonably proportional fee for musical instruments and get a guarantee that they&#x27;ll be carry-ons, and not destroyed in the cargo hold. My only other alternatives are buying first class tickets or flirting with the gate agent (...works remarkably well...).

The general perception, and often true, checking a bag means losing it or waiting two hours.<p>So it makes you wonder if the airlines are even putting any pressure on airport operators to improve baggage operations when it allows such commercial opportunities for the airline. Seems like a win win

Aer lingus started doing this and it’s… fine. It makes sense really, carrying a bag on is nicer than checking one. IIRC you can now check a carryon sized bag for free, which is useful if you have liquids, etc.

Airlines could also make it policy that you have to go through a secondary non-security screening where if they see anything of yours they like they can just keep it. After people get used to that, then if you fly then you sign of TOS that allows the airline to come directly access your bank account and make whatever charges they want to your credit cards. De-regulation is awesome.

Solution: get your stuff thru security and stuff it into a hollowed out jacket.

Dimensional weight is the rational endpoint for this

I love this. I fly a decent amount in Canada&#x2F;USA on economy and almost every single time there is a massive line of gate humpers who haven&#x27;t been called to board and are trying to get their oversized luggage into the overhead bins.<p>My greatest hope for airlines is someone starts a company focused on banning people. Bag too big for carry on? Banned. Wearing too much perfume? Banned. Got in line before your group was called. Guess what. Yeah. Banned.

What else can they take away from economy class at this point?

So they’re gonna charge to bring a handbag? A backpack? A laptop? We’re living in the worst aspects of capitalism as it eats itself and any fake vague promise of a decent system is flying right out the window. It’s only going to keep getting worse and worse until we’re crushed by it.