Newton In Nashville
The blowback is not just from the engines any more

Last March, I wrote about confiscatory luggage surcharges on low-cost airlines in Europe. Little did I know how soon the majors here at home were to follow.

Neither, however, have the airlines figured on Newton's Third Law of Motion : "To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction." —at least as it applies to the passengers. Read Chicago Tribune food writer Phil Vettel's story on his recent experience on a United Airlines flight from Nashville back to Chicago :

http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-jet-weight-1109_r_t_pnov09,0,1421291.story