This article originally appeared onJalopnik.
Checked bags arebig businessfor airlines.
In 2022 airlines madenearly $30 billionjust off checked bag fees alone.
Image: Damian Dovarganes (AP)
First spotted byFortune, the fees were added toJetBlues site.
As usual with surge pricing, its variable and highly unpopular with customers.
Usually during non peak times, JetBlue charges $35 for a checked bag on a basic fare ticket.
But that fee is only $35 if the passenger paid the fee 24 hours before their flight.
Under surge pricing its a little messier, as Fortune explained using the example of someone flying during Thanksgiving.
We all know this wont go over well with passengers.
This is a corporation were talking about, and nothing is ever as it seems.
Thats not by accident, he said.
News from the future, delivered to your present.
Meta Pissed Off Everyone With Poorly Redacted Docs
Meta is being very transparent on accident.
