US Soldiers Gain Baggage Decision

September 28, 2008

Soldiers going off to war or returning home should not have to pay a baggage fee of any kind, ever.

Now it seems that since our last post, based on an August Washington Post article, American Airlines is changing their tune. Pat, one of our readers and a military mom AND an American Airlines agent advised us that this is no longer the case. According to the Conners Report on the KMOV TV Channel 4 web log out of St Louis, MO:

“…So, now, there is some good news … at least from American Airlines. In the face of all the publicity and outcry … American Airlines is doing what should have been done in the beginning. American Airlines will no longer charge our troops for a third bag. “

Thank you Pat, thank you KMOV TV 4, and thank you to all the people who raised the dickens about this absurd practice and got it changed.

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