[Travelandtourism] American Airlines will launch luggage-delivery service

[Reese]

The newest airline service to be offered for an extra fee comes from 
American Airlines, which will deliver your luggage to a home, office or 
hotel so you can skip the baggage carousel.

The new service, to begin Monday, will cost passengers $29.95 for one bag, 
$39.95 for two bags and $49.95 for three to 10 bags. American is partnering 
with BAGS VIP Luggage Delivery for the service.

Passengers order the service when they book a flight and, as usual, drop off 
their luggage at the airport ticket counter. Instead of picking up the bags 
at the carousel, the passengers will get the luggage delivered to a 
designated address.

The fee includes delivery to a location within 40 miles of the destination 
airport. The airline will charge an extra $1 per mile for final delivery 
locations 41 to 100 miles from the airport. Passengers still must pay a 
baggage check fee, in addition to the delivery charge.

The service will be offered at about 200 airports across the country.

"We think this service will be especially valuable to families traveling 
with children as well as our business travelers who need to go straight to a 
meeting or into the office," said David Vance, the airline's managing 
director for customer operations planning.

Since 2008, passenger fees to check bags, buy food, connect to onboard 
wireless Internet or upgrade to roomier seats have become a bigger revenue 
stream for airlines. In 2011, 50 airlines throughout the world collected 
$22.6 billion from such fees, a 5% increase over the previous year, 
according to a recent study.

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