Airlines Behaving Badly II

Also from Upgrade: Better Travel, is a report that Air Jamaica which I can truthfully say I didn't even know existed, has implemented a new and really fascinating variant on the charging for a second bag scam. See most airlines just charge you for the second bag, you pay, and they put it on the plane for you to pick up at your destination. But this is just old school thinking.

Air Jamaica has gone back to the drawing board, and come up with a PLAN, that is so far outside the box that we're talking about the planetary orbit of Saturn here. See, on Air Jamaica, if you want to check a second bag, you will pay an additional $25. But that's not all, kids! For this princely sum of $25, Air Jamaica will not put the bag on the same plane with you. No indeed, they will promise, kinda, that your second bag will be transported to the Caribbean separately. Indeed, it is possible that the bag will not even be transported through the aerial means at all - they may ship it by sea to the islands, or use a giant catapult, or lashed to the backs of giant sea turtles, because they aren't making any promises. But never fear, the bag will arrive sometime during the next week, at any time that the airline deems appropriate, and you dear customer, will have to come down to either Norman Manley or Sangster International Airport, from whatever fabulous and remote resort you've booked, and find it yourself. Anyone who takes advantage of this innovative offer should also go ahead and place expensive cameras, designer clothes,  and heirloom jewelry in the bag because I'm sure security for the luggage will be world class and the airport workers, their families, and any random passerby will not be able to rifle through the bags to their heart's content.