Southwest Airlines, known for free bags and open seating, is overhauling policies, leaving loyalists questioning if it’s ...

Customers with the highest loyalty status will be spared from the fee, but others will have to pay for checked bags for ...

Last year, the Dallas-based airline announced it was doing away with another tradition, the open-boarding system.

Less than a year ago, the Dallas-based airline announced it was doing away with another tradition, the open-boarding system ...

March 11 (UPI) -- Southwest Airlines is ending a longtime perk and will now charge most flyers to check their luggage. On ...

"Clearly, there are some customers who chose them because of that, and now those customers are up for grabs," said Delta's ...

Southwest Airlines abandons one of its biggest perks: free checked bags. The airline announced that it would charge for first ...

Southwest Airlines, for the first time in its 54-year history, will be charging customers to check their bags.

Southwest Airlines announced Tuesday that it would start charging passengers to check bags for the first time. The offer of checking two bags for free has long been a popular foundation for the ...

There will be exceptions: Customers who have a Southwest Airlines co-branded credit card can get one bag for free, and ...

Southwest recently announced the free baggage perk was going the way of the dodo bird — that is, it will be extinct.