baggage charges

can anyone confirm
we booked our internal flight Vegas to LA in March this year with United with Thomas Cook as part of our package, when i picked up tickets yesterday the girl said we have to pay for checking baggage for this flight 20 or 25$ per item, i have looked on the United website and the link to the table for cost of baggage for flights booked before June this year is not working ?|
just a note the flight is operated by Skywest

As a general rule yes you do indeed pay to check bags for UA domestic flights. $25 sounds right (from painful memory).

[Neil]

Sounds about right, one of the reasons why I tend to use Southwest for short internal hops like that. Their two free checked bag allowance is very good.

[honey lamb]

Yep. I paid $25 for a bag a couple of weeks ago on Skywest

[preiffer]

Get a *A gold card = no baggage charges

Interestingly last time I did this they didn't charge me when I came into Miami from an International flight but said I had to pay when I started my journey home on the Domestic flight!

[honey lamb]

Interestingly last time I did this they didn't charge me when I came into Miami from an International flight but said I had to pay when I started my journey home on the Domestic flight!

That happened to me too. My onward flight was with Continental but not on the same PNR as my VS flight. I was directed to a check-in area airside who did not charge me. On the return I was charged for my bag and had fully expected to be

If it's a connecting flight, you can sometimes avoid the baggage fee if your onbound flight is within a certain number of hours and the airlines have a baggage agreement in place.