text: There is a reason the flights are so cheap...they charge you 100 dollars if your bag is over 50 pounds but they'll give you a trash bag to put your items in to check and then you don't have to pay. Oh, I guess that extra five pounds really doesn't make a difference then does it. Why would I put my belongings in garbage bag to get tossed around? I even to them I was military on leave orders and it didn't seem to matter. Awful airlines... I'll pay extra to fly with Alaska.