US Airways, Consumers’ $10M Bag Fee Settlement Approved

US Airways Inc. will pay $9.85 million to settle a consumer class action to recover bag fees for lost luggage under a deal that won final approval April 11.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cleared the case in 2017, finding the state contract law claims aren’t preempted by the federal Airline Deregulation Act.

The airline, now a subsidiary of American Airlines Group Inc., charged Hayley Hickcox-Huffman $15 to check her bag. When she landed, it didn’t show up on the baggage carousel and was delivered to her the next day.

She filed a class action ...