Checking your bags? TSA bans item before Real ID deadline. Here's what's no longer allowed

Add-on fees. For the first eighty years or so of commercial flights in the United States, checked luggage was included in the ticket price. But beginning in 2008, most airlines started charging passengers extra to check a bag. These fees have since become a massive revenue driver. In 2018, U.S. airlines collected approximately $5 billion in bag fee

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