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Sat 04 Apr 2007Handling the baggage: from PC to check-inWelcome to the third age of air passenger travel. In the first, when air travel was the transport mode of the elite, the mini-champagne bottles fizzed regularly as passengers were schmoozed through the air at high prices.In the second, democracy arrived and we all got a chance to fly at fabulously low fares, though one by one the frills were taken away.