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Here's the lowdown on the raises in fees, as expertly gathered by SmarterTravel. Note that one fee is decreasing, but sadly not by enough to get us excited.

· AirTran raises overweight bag fee (51-70 pounds) to $49 from $39. Begins to charge $79 for bags over 71 linear inches in size.
· Delta (also Northwest) raises its first checked bag fee to $23 online or $25 at the airport from $15/$20. Accordingly, the second checked bag fee goes up to $32 online or $35 at the airport from $25/$30 before. However, Delta has lowered their pet-in-cabin fee to $100 from $150.
· Hawaiian Airlines updates their first checked bag to differentiate between checking online or at the airport. It'll be $15 online or $20 at the airport. Meanwhile, they've raised the second bag fees to $25 online or $30 at the airport.
· JetBlue is the only cool airline in the bunch, lowering their overweight bag fees to $50 for bags (51-70 lbs) from $75, and to $100 for bags (71-99 lbs) from $175.
· Midwest gave into the pressure to raise their overweight bag fees as well, going up to $75 for bags (51-100 lbs) from $50. BUT! They lowered oversized bag fees to $75 from $80 for bags between 63 and 110. Okay we are getting confused now.
· Virgin America made a minor, but still notable change of raising the fee for your third through tenth checked bags from $15 to $20, but then who checks ten bags?

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