Southwest Airlines is ending its "bags fly free" policy Credit: Digital Illustration by TYR Digital Southwest Airlines is ending its “bags fly free” policy, introducing checked baggage fees for most ...

Dallas-based Southwest is ending the policy in May. Customers are not happy. "It was the only reason I flew Southwest," said MaKensey Kaye Alford, a 21-year-old singer and actress who lives near ...

"It was the only reason I flew Southwest," said MaKensey Kaye Alford, a 21-year-old singer and actress who lives near Birmingham, Alabama. Alford, who is planning to move to New York City later this ...

Almost nothing is guaranteed in life. Certainly not weather, electricity, health, tariffs or eggs. But for more than 50 years, American consumers could count on Southwest Airlines letting them check ...

Southwest will start charging for checked bags for the first time in its 50 years of flying. Thousands of Southwest customers complained about the loss of the free checked bags. Southwest shares ...