Northwest also announced a fee for issuing frequent-flier tickets beginning Sept. 15. It said it wil

Checking a bag and redeeming frequent-flier awards will cost travelers Northwest Airlines Corp. said Wednesday it will cut 2,500 jobs because orlando car rentals of high fuel prices and will soon begin charging orlando car rentals $15 to check luggage and as much as $100 to redeem a frequent-flier award ticket. The airline said it expects the new fees to add $250 million to $300 million...
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Northwest Airlines Corp. said Wednesday it will cut 2,500 jobs because of high fuel prices and will soon begin charging $15 to check luggage and as much as $100 to redeem a frequent-flier award ticket.
orlando car rentals Northwest said the job cuts -- which represent about 8.3 percent of its work force -- will include front-line and management workers. It said it will start with voluntary departures and leaving open jobs unfilled before moving to furloughs to reach the 2,500 total.
Northwest had said it would have fewer workers after it cuts 8.5 percent to 9.5 percent of mainline flying orlando car rentals in the fourth quarter of this year. It has said overall capacity would shrink 3 percent to 4 percent because it is adding orlando car rentals regional seats. orlando car rentals At the end of 2007, Northwest employed about 30,000 people.
"These reductions orlando car rentals are the direct result of our extraordinary fuel costs and the necessary orlando car rentals actions we must take to right-size our airline and eliminate unprofitable flying," he said in a written statement.
Northwest also said it would begin charging $15 for the first checked bag, matching a fee announced earlier orlando car rentals this year by US Airways, American Airlines and United Airlines. Northwest's new fee applies to tickets sold after today for travel starting Aug. 28 in the U.S. or to Canada.
Northwest orlando car rentals also announced a fee for issuing frequent-flier tickets beginning Sept. 15. It said it will charge $25 for domestic tickets, $50 for trans-Atlantic tickets and $100 for trans-Pacific tickets. Steenland called the service fee temporary.
Last month, Delta Air Lines Inc. announced a $25 surcharge for redeeming orlando car rentals frequent-flier tickets for domestic travel and $50 for international. Delta, which is buying Northwest, has not added a fee for the first checked bag.
Frequent-flier programs have been around since the early '80s. The idea has always been that airlines would reward customer loyalty "with a free -- repeat -- free ticket," said Tim Winship, who runs mileage program tracking Web site frequentflier.com. "That to me is a pretty clear-cut promise. And the free part is at the center of that promise."