My wife and I took a whirlwind trip to Seattle over the second week of Sept (Sept 10-14) 2010. We departed Austin Friday evening and returned Tuesday Afternoon, both trips were on Alaska Airlines nonstop from Austin-Seattle and Seattle-Austin. The flights were pretty standard, except for a few issues I will discuss below.
Since my wife and I wanted the LEAST hassle on our trip, we decided to go ahead and check our bag so we didn’t have to fight for room (larger end of the carry-on size since it had BOTH our clothes), and since we had a rental car/parked our car, it wasn’t a big rush to get moving once the plane landed. Also, Alaska promises 20 minute delivery from the plane landing. So, that was acceptable.
First, they charge $20 bucks for each checked bag up to 3. Well, ok, we just paid even though that seems…well, you know how it seems. For that we got the 20 minute guarantee.
So, here’s the scam/uber-lame part of it.