Southwest Airlines to start charging for checked bags in May
March 11, 2025
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as posted by the channelSouthwest Airlines will begin charging customers a fee to check bags, abandoning a decades-long practice that executives had described as key to differentiating the budget carrier from its rivals. The new policy will start with May 28 bookings.
Southwest, which built years of advertising campaigns around its policy of letting passengers two bags for free, said people who haven’t either reached the upper tiers of its Rapid Rewards loyalty program, bought a business class ticket or hold the airline’s credit card will have to pay for checked bags.
This is the second big change from Southwest in less than a year. The airline announced that it is also ending its famous open seating policy in 2026.
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