We all live in a little bubble. It’s a situation where a company or two takes a slight liberty, and though people get slightly uncomfortable with it, they learn to ‘adjust’. They whine a bit, then continue on, pay with gritted teeth so they can take their flight. Then they forget about it. Piece by piece new fees are added or a stricter policy here or there, with the same ‘adjustment’ we make. Sure, if everything were added at once, it would be deemed as absurd, and the airline (or insert company name here) would fold. There are people who back up such changes for one particular reason or another, like in a previous post about being the last to get on and still having room for a carry on, but in reality, this is just one liberty they take that really is a gateway to a laundry list of liberties we will see in the next decade from charging to use the lavatory to God knows what. Everybody has their threshold of pain, but if it is inflicted slowly, it doesn’t seem so bad. Personally, a real solution would be to boycott any company that makes a change that is detrimental to the employees or consumers, no matter how small it is. The companies should be in service of us, not the other way around. Imagine what it will be like in ten years. Do you really think it will be any better? Not without some action on our part. Seriously…

I got into your blog searching in google for a site about
“international travellers rights” or something like this,
because i dont know if there exist already something like that!

How can we all the international travellers join together to demand and fight the superbusiness and abuse the airlines are making with us?

they will charge the food extra…
they charge the seat you will choose, extra…
they charge the extra luggage…
what will they charge after???

(actually, when we purchase a ticket online, there is in a lot of low cost airlines, the option “travelling assurance” which means that by EXTRA CHARGE, the company compromises to pay if your luggage is lost or damaged… should this not be already a legal risponsability of the airline in the moment we purchase a ticket? why shall we pay extra for this legal obligation of the carrier?
This means “if you dont want your luggage to get lost or damaged, you must pay an extra fee… if you dont, we dont have any risponsability about your belongings”!
Who can regulate this abuse internationally? nobody?

Why are only US and Canada the only two countries allowed to take two luggage pieces in economic class,
and if you are travelling to any other country in economy class, we can only take for free one 20 kgs luggage piece?
20 kgs is nothing>
why are only this two countries having this privilege?

people like me who spend months outside our own country and then come back, we will spend millions on “excess luggage”, or posting our belongings…

I think the only way to fight these is to make a global strike of “no travelling at all” until the airlines stop this abuse to the passengers.
but how can we join together to demand this?

Next they will want us to fly only with what the are wearing on,
and pay for any extra gram we will carry

i appreciate if you can give some information about some initiative, institution, ong or any international asociation which is fighting and working on this cause for the benefit of all travellers.
This is as much as a “human rights” of travellers cause!

thank you so much,
a desperate traveller in Bangkok, Thailand,

It might be that there were 4 of us flying, and only 2 carry ons, plus my wife’s (small) purse

If airlines do move ahead w/this, I certainly hope they manage the situation well before the security lines or the boarding lines. I also hope they have staff on hand to handle the passenger who loses his/her temper over this.

Ron