Flybe to charge for hold baggage
Lead 'piece' on Radio 4's 'You and Yours'. Flybe is to introduce a £2 fee for hold babbage whilst reducing fares by £1. Hold allowance per item will go up to 25kg but the overall emphasis was to encourage carry-on bags which will attract an increase in weight allowance - no mention on size, of course. The excuse given was to drive down (don't managers just love that term) ground handling costs - and p..s off a lot of potential customers, IMHO. Rutter quoted the 1.5M passengers now flying the routes out of Southampton, the vast majority of which need more than hand luggage to see them through a season in the second home au continent.