Airlines Raised Bag Fees Again. Here's What Every US Airline Charges Now, and the One Way to Pay $0 on All of Them.
Every few months another airline quietly adds $5 or $10 to its checked bag fee. Each one alone sounds small. Added up over a year of trips, it isn't.
So we did the boring part for you: every fee, every airline, straight from their own baggage pages. Then we checked every popular way to stop paying them, and what each one really costs.
TL;DR
A first checked bag now costs $35 to $50 each way on every major US airline. Cards, status and prepaying lower the fee. Only a carry-on that holds the whole trip takes it to $0 on every airline, every time.