Charging for Baggage

There's always a way to make more money out of our misery. The airlines have found it. They've driven us to fly without "carry-on luggage" so as to avoid the long lines and indignity of being searched before allowing us to enter the airplane, so now they're charging us for the FIRST checked bag. To carry ANYTHING on board, even innocuous products like Tang and pressurized spray cans is almost impossible, so it will now cost us $15 to put that kind of thing in a checked bag, and you can count on that price to go up in the future, as ALL prices tend to do, once they've become an expected thing. (Yahoo Finance)