On Travel is a weekly consumer travel column that offers information and advice for people planning a business or leisure trip. The feature started in USA Today in 2013 and is now nationally syndicated.
It’s more than a decade since the airline industry, led by a then-ailing American Airlines, quietly stripped the ability to check your first bag at no extra cost from the price of an airline ticket — an act given the antiseptic name “unbundling.”
Kimberly O’Connell’s mother died two years ago, and not a day goes by that she doesn’t think of her. That’s because Chase calls her phone with an automatic account notification for her deceased mother. At 4 a.m. Can’t they make the daily calls stop?
