Bag Trump bid to hide airline fees: Schumer

THE TRUMP administration should back off its Grinch-like move to allow airlines to hide the cost of added bag fees, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday.

“We are here to warn that consumers are not going to be informed of bag fees when they buy plane tickets for Christmas,” Schumer (D-N.Y.) said at a news conference in Manhattan.

The Department of Transportation said Thursday it is scrapping an Obama-era proposal to require airlines to disclose checked and carry-on bag fees at the beginning of a ticket purchase.

That would enable consumers to know the entire cost of a trip as they shopped for the best deal. But the proposal was frozen after Trump took office.

“I’m not going to tell (airlines) what they should charge,” said Schumer. “But let the consumer make that decision.”

The airline industry made more than $7 billion in checked bag fees in 2016, according to reports.