You can't help wondering, can you, whether British Airways might be kicking itself for not introducing its second bag charge a day earlier.
Last week the airline took a bit of a shoeing from the commentariat over the new charges - see Darren at Travelrants and the Times's Janice Turner ('Why does BA hate us?') for a taster - and it would have been good fortune indeed had the travel media been diverted from the introduction of the fees by yesterday's announcement.
No such luck. The changes came in today - albeit 'sympathetically' - and thus far commentary has been no less complimentary than it was last week.
A vote on the BBC website currently shows 70% of readers think BA is wrong to charge extra. On the Guardian's Travelog Andy Wright asks whether BA has thought about less mobile travellers, while the same paper's news coverage has an anonymous analyst observing, "It's like BA has got a digit wrong somewhere".
To make matters worse, today's Telegraph has a report that BA faces more strike action come Easter.
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Nathan Midgley, Travelweekly.co.uk
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