Why do Low Cost Airlines charge for checked baggage?

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It also was the main idea of low-coast flights (war for the first time discovered by Southwest Airlines). They save huge money not bacause lonely luggage, but whole buisness model which includes (this model doesn't include resources as fuel (I do not thing they save so much, but they save something) or airports agreements (but I guess it is the reason for them to use just a few airports for low-coast flights) ):

  1. Just some routes, not from everywhere, not to anywhere
  2. No food included
  3. No luggage included
  4. No place when you chek-in online for free (random place privides for example fueling)

And may be a list of other things which wasn't included in the book I have read where this buisness model was the example.

And in this book said that the model when you exclude from coast everything but just a fligth, you make your product extremely cheap and easy to sell, so such airlines will win with the number of tickets they sold and number of flights they made.

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Charges associated to checked baggages come not only from fuel and airport handling but also from time spent to load and unload baggages to and from the plane.

Airlines loose money for every minute that theirs planes are not flying.

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