Goodbye to ‘bags fly free’ on Southwest Airlines, the last freebie in America

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Passengers check in for Southwest Airlines flights at Chicago Midway International Airport on Feb. 18, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images 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 bags […]


Why it’s getting harder to get a free first-class flight upgrade

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Passengers deplane through the business class seating area on an American Airlines flight, London Heathrow Airport, Aug. 14, 2018. Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images Cheap seats aren’t enough for airline passengers anymore. Since the pandemic, travelers have shown airlines that they’re willing to pay up to sit at the relatively spacious […]


Bernardine Evaristo is letting writers crash at her house for free. ‹

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October 25, 2024, 2:25pm Bernardine Evaristo, president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) and author of the polyphonic, Booker-Prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other, is paying it forward. And the “it” in question is some primo Kentish real estate. As part and parcel of the RSL’s newly inaugurated “Scriptorium” awards, Evaristo will be gifting her English cottage […]