Changes in airline fares: It will charge the luggage separately in all its flights

Paying checked baggage only when needed, changing seats or expanding the possibility of changing the dates of travel are part of the possibilities offered by the new tariff plan announced by

Aerolineas Argentinas

, which will be applied to all your local and international flights.

The model incorporates the strategy already implemented by other airlines around the world and introduces categories for the purchase of the ticket, each with a higher cost depending on the features and services offered.

The new initiative has already been implemented since this week on flights from Aerolíneas to Punta Cana (Dominican Republic) and Colombia. Starting next week, they said in the company, ticket sales will be nationwide and will then come into effect for other international destinations (Latin America, Europe, Mexico and the United States).

"The goal is that the pbadenger does not pay what he does not want or will not use," the company said.
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The lowest price segment (Promo) offers the pbadenger only one piece of luggage in the cabin and allows more suitcases with additional payments. The following categories allow, among other things, the sending of luggage, the change of date or the return of the ticket.

The strategy of not including no-cost luggage in the warehouse had already been launched by the company for its cabotage flights when it announced
Flexibility of tariffs and the elimination of minimum prices on the local market, in order to compete with the airlines' offer

low cost

. Now, it extends to all the routes of society.

In its previous model, the airlines also offered different categories with staggered ticket prices, although a limited quota in each segment prevents the pbadenger from accessing the lowest values ​​if the available offers were exhausted. This new program, promised by the company, will always be available as long as there will be free seats in an aircraft.

"There is no concrete projection related to income, but to change the momentum when buying tickets and there are no tickets to miss", he says in the company that has transported in 2011 9.8 million cabotage pbadengers and 3.2 million on its international routes.