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Thanks to the price of oil going up, grounding of planes, and a so-called worsening economy, American Airlines will now be forcing more idiots through airport security.

How will they do that with reduced flights and employee layoffs?

In an effort to create profit, they have instituted a $15 fee for checking your first piece of luggage. While many airlines (including American) charge to check a second bag, usually $25, this is the first time an airline will be charging to check the first. Other passenger fees related to unaccompanied minors and pets will also be increasing.

Seeing as how most many people don’t know how to go through airport security today, imagine what will happen when all those cheap folks trying to avoid baggage fees try not to check luggage for possibly the first time in their lives.

TSA will have a field day. They will be searching all the clueless grandmothers (old people are penny pinchers) and bumbling foreigners (would get picked on regardless) who don’t know how to put their 3 ounce or less liquids in a 1 quart bag. 3-1-1 anyone?

I won’t get into a rant about how terrible TSA is (I literally saw an 80-year-old grandmother being patted down at the Dayon airport last week) because this is really AA’s fault.

When you walk into terminal three at O’Hare, you will feel the stupidity from the travelers and the contempt from TSA like a cloud ready to strike ignorance bolts.
I don’t even want to go to Dallas-Fort Worth, AA’s main hub. It will be complete chaos.

When all the rest of the airlines follow suit and try to avoid bankruptcy for the second or third time, good luck traveling. Even if you pay the $15 to check a bag, you will still have to deal with all of the people that didn’t pay.

Hopefully, TSA will get smart and create separate security lines:

1. Frequent travelers who don’t check bags
2. Travelers who did check bags
3. Idiots

I’ll probably be going to Nashville the week this policy goes into affect and possibly flying American, so I’ll let you know how it goes…