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Expensive Baggage

February 21, 2024
Jean explains how much you will be paying for your baggage this summer. From American Airlines to JetBlue, who wants to hurt you and your tias the most?
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American Airlines announced changes to its baggage policy on Tuesday, which includes increasing the fees for checked bags. In contrast, Frontier Airlines imposes relatively high fees ranging from $59 to $99 for the first carry-on and checked bag on most domestic flights,...
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Oh Je, what are you doing here about to catch a
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flight? You already know what's inside my Maleta.
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Well, what's inside Tra De Bano?
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Some fruit and whatever my mom and tias asked for back home
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Yeah. How about you?
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What do you pack inside of yours?
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Well, it depends on where I'm going.
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usually it's to the beach like Mexico.
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I'll do my bathing suit sunglasses,
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maybe some hats. I have quite a lot actually,
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I'm not the type to pack light.
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Well, Jenny, I have bad news.
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I'm gonna disappoint you abuela because it's gonna cost you.
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Now, American Airlines announced on Tuesday changes to its baggage policy
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increasing the fees for checked bags.
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American also made several other changes to its policy and fees.
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So they're affecting your wallet and pissing your abuela off.
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Fuck, dude, they always do this shit like always all
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of them. Let's see how bad it is.
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Let's see how bad how much money you need.
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Oh shoot. Oh damn,
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honey, honey I got you.
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I got you with a grip.
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Oh shoot. Ok.
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First bag for American Airlines 35.
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That's not bad. It's not bad.
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2nd 45 at the airport 40.
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Ok so it seems like they're punishing you for checking in at
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the airport so like you better check in you better do your
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shit in time like so jetblue first bag 35 2nd 50.
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Grandma's not seeing that she's not seeing that coffee because they always
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mean Cargan was. Oh ok.
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First bag zero second bag zero third bag 125.
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All right never getting a third bag from me.
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I'll pack light if I Yeah dude,
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that's crazy. That is another flight frontier.
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Oh this one's gonna be bad.
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I fucking I know it.
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The the 59 is almost like disrespectful right before check in $75
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What does that even mean?
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It means like the 24 hours before the flight.
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If you waited until then to buy it,
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it's gonna be 75 and then if you didn't do anything at
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all, it's 99 at the airport.
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Sorry Tia I am not taking your in carcass no more.
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It is getting pricey.
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What's the craziest thing you've taken for your family members back home
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I wanna say my mom really packed a bag of rice
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I'm like they don't sell rice over there.
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Why are we taking rice from here?
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And then as a kid I think one time she put like
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a block of cheese,
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she put the cheese in my Nintendo and it like melted inside
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the inside the system.
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So it was like I spent the whole summer out there with
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no video games and yeah,
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imagine having to call Nintendo and be like,
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yo, I got cheese in my system.
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Can I get my money back?
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And here's my mom because I'm 10.
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Well, the cheese story.
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Damn. Well,
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I have Tortas from Mexico.
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My, so my cousin,
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she brought back a shit load of Tortas from over there for
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for me. What's your favorite?
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Definitely flying. It looks like jetblue.
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I like jetblue. They have direct TV.
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Yeah, I like jetblue.
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I volunteer for the emergency room.
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Oh, yeah, they ask you for the safety.
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That's why I go in,
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that's why I go in early even though I don't know what
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I would do during an emergency.
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No, I don't think I could pull that door.
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I'm like, y'all all fucked.
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That door is not opening.
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Oh, damn. Don't go on a flight with this guy
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He ain't saving us.
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Oh.