Bagging it
United Airlines announced last week that it’s dropping its plan to increase the price of a second checked bag to $50. The price will remain $25 for the second checked bag, and although the first checked bag will still cost $15, customers can get a 20 percent discount on the first by paying for it online until Jan. 31.
AirTran is joining the legacy carriers with its new $15 fee for the first checked bag for trips booked on or after Nov. 12. The second-bag fee will remain $25.
Plug in
If you’re cooling your heels in Hosea Kutako International Airport in Windhoek, Namibia, looking for an outlet, it might help you to learn that under the fire hydrant on the left-hand side of the boarding area there is a power outlet that takes South African three-prong plugs.
Not so useful? Well, maybe it would be good to know that the tables at the Vino Volo wine bar in C Concourse at Washington’s Dulles International Airport have two electrical outlets at each table.
This info comes from AirPower Wiki, which offers tidbits on about 110 airports. The information is spotty, but also points out free WiFi in some places and even a staircase in Minneapolis where there’s outlets “and pure peace and quiet.”
AirPower is the brainchild of a Microsoft team leader, Jeff Sandquist. It’s the nature of a wiki that the information is only as accurate as the volunteers who feed it. Go to airpower.jeffsandquist.com. Washington Post
