Air Canada has announced that it will begin charging to check luggage on economy flights to the US on tickets issued on or after September 7, 2011. The charge will be $25 for one bag. A second bag will cost $35, according to the airline. That would bring the checked luggage fee for two bags headed to the US to $60. The information from Air Canada is ambiguous because the website does not really clarify whether the fee for a “2nd bag”is really a fee for two. But logically, it would appear to be the former.The charges are said by Air Canada to be in keeping with airline industry practice but it reveals again the doubtful nature of airline economics.
