Flutterby™! : Baggage bribes

"Baggage handlers in Miami took bribes to allow oversized/overweight cargo onto flights. I'd normally drop this, even though

...police spokesman Detective Roy Rutland said investigators think some of the luggage checked by the skycaps could have gone onto planes without passing through security.

seems pertinent in the face of all the attention given the passengers via the pornoscanners and the preflightfondles.

However, the real thing that caught my eye with this was that anyone who's traveled with a bicycle, especially with a tandem bicycle, has played the "wonder how much it's going to cost me to fly this time?" game, and gotten different answers on different legs of the trips, even within the same airline. Seems like if the airlines want to nip this, they'd do well to have reasonable well-stated baggage policies right at the desks and on the front of their web pages, so we know how much we'll be forking over to whom in order to fly.