{"id":193013,"date":"2025-03-31T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/competitors-take-aim-southwest-airlines-ditching-free-bags\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T07:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T21:00:15","slug":"southwest-competitors-ready-to-respond-to-airlines-bag-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=193013","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Competitors Ready To Respond To Airline&#8217;s Bag Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> announced that it would be ending its decades-old policy of offering passengers two free checked bags. This is one of many moves taken by the airline, which has for around six months been under <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-elliott-what-comes-next\/\" >the heavy influence of activist investment management firm Elliott Management<\/a>, to help the carrier turn its streak of poor financial performance around. The airline has taken several steps in recent months <strong>to help reduce its operational cost footprint and improve its financial performance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier has made a major shift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4744,13240,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-checked-baggage","category-commercial-aviation","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193014,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193013\/revisions\/193014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}