{"id":27561,"date":"2024-04-15T01:42:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-employee-accused-passenger-tip-bag-newark\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T01:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T15:42:19","slug":"united-airlines-baggage-agent-accused-of-bribing-passenger-for-tip-at-newark-liberty-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=27561","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines Baggage Agent Accused Of Bribing Passenger For Tip At Newark Liberty International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Airlines worldwide impose weight restrictions on checked bags; in the United States, it is typically set at 50 lbs. Some carriers will allow status-holding frequent fliers to carry more, with the limit usually at 70 lbs. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-airlines\/\">United Airlines<\/a> follows these norms, offering the typical limit to their economy class and premium economy fliers and allowing their status-holding frequent fliers and passengers in Domestic First, Business, and Polaris an extra 20lbs. Last week, at Newark Airport&#39;s Terminal C, one of the airline&#39;s hubs, a company baggage agent was accused of bribing a passenger over the weight limit.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baggage agents bribing passengers to ignore overweight bags happens from time to time<\/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":[396,595,1009,7812,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-incident","category-newark","category-united-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561","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=27561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27587,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27561\/revisions\/27587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}