Delta hiking fees for checked bags

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - January 12, 2009 -- It will now cost $23 for the first checked bag and $32 for the second bag.

Attention air travelers: That tug at your wallet is about to happen again, courtesy of the world's biggest airline.

Delta Air Lines Inc. is raising its fees to check your first bag on a domestic flight by $8 and the second bag by $7.

It will continue to cost you even more if you don't pay the fees in advance on the airline's Web site.

The new fees are for travel beginning Tuesday on tickets purchased on or after Jan. 5.

Tickets purchased before then, regardless of when the travel begins, are subject to the current fees - $15 for the first bag and $25 for the second.

Elite frequent fliers and certain other customers, including active military personnel on deployment, are exempt from the fees.

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