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United offers door-to-door luggage service

Posted by Paul Makishima, Globe Assistant Sunday Editor October 29, 2008 05:42 PM

United, teaming with FedEx, is offering to ship a passenger's bag overnight for as much as $358 round trip, $228 more than it would cost to check two bags even under the carrier's updated, costlier baggage rules.
Clearly, these guys are betting that anyone who would opt for this door-to-door service would not be doing so for economic reasons but to avoid having to schlep bags around the airport and sing "Kumbaya'' around the luggage carousel with The Rest Of Us.
United expects about 1 percent of passengers to use the service, Robin Urbanski, a United spokeswoman, told Bloomberg News.
The new service will be available to passengers on United flights in the 48 contiguous US states. The cost is $149 a bag each way for flights of less than 1,000 miles and $179 on longer routes.
The updated baggage rules kick in Nov. 10. They call for passengers to continue to pay $25 each way for a first checked bag but it doubles the fee for the second bag to $50.


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    Posted by Jeff Santos October 3, 09 07:31 PM
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