Do most airlines still hammer with a fee? $50? $100?
You'll be doing well to get under $100. It's carrier dependent. Delta and United were charging $175 - $200 each way at one point - leading to the ridiculous situation, depending on where you are flying to, of your bike costing more, then for you, and you get to seat in a seat on the plane!!!
Check the small print with whoever you are going to book your travel with, on the "Bikes" section of their luggage information and get ALL the information ahead of time, before you book/pay for any tickets.
Do not support in any way your travel business, airlines that have insane bike fees. It continues to perpetuate the foolishness of it all. Do support those airline that have reasonable bike travels fees. I would say that a fee in the $50 range is reasonable. I get it that it might be a bit more work to handle a bike, so $50 seems reasonable to me, but $175 - no, that's crazy and a rip-off.
Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog
You'll be doing well to get under $100. It's carrier dependent. Delta and United were charging $175 - $200 each way at one point - leading to the ridiculous situation, depending on where you are flying to, of your bike costing more, then for you, and you get to seat in a seat on the plane!!!
Check the small print with whoever you are going to book your travel with, on the "Bikes" section of their luggage information and get ALL the information ahead of time, before you book/pay for any tickets.
Do not support in any way your travel business, airlines that have insane bike fees. It continues to perpetuate the foolishness of it all. Do support those airline that have reasonable bike travels fees. I would say that a fee in the $50 range is reasonable. I get it that it might be a bit more work to handle a bike, so $50 seems reasonable to me, but $175 - no, that's crazy and a rip-off.
Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog