An old story just for entertainment. Had flown with bike to England many times, then on to NZ and Oz, with no charges 1979-mid 80’s. Then on a trip to Paris got dropped off at Cincy and went inside with bike, and the clerk said that will be $75.00. Since when I asked, in my mind, he said when you walked in. Then he proceeded to arrange the charge round trip, but to my fortune he could only charge for one way. Arriving a CDG the bike ( in box ) came up on the conveyor belt with the rest of the luggage, no handling. Two weeks later checking in at Air France, as they were handling Delta out of CDG, and was treated to Air France still not charging for bikes, and it was free back to Cincy on the Delta flight. Delta had started charging only because they could.