{"id":372123,"date":"2026-02-19T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-raises-checked-bag-fees-again\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:09:52","slug":"price-increase-american-airlines-raises-checked-bag-fees-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=372123","title":{"rendered":"Price Increase: American Airlines Raises Checked Bag Fees Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Worth-based <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> has announced its plans to increase the cost to check a second bag, for those who aren&#8217;t prepared enough to pre-book it online, that is. The oneworld carrier annouced this week that for those wanting to check their second bag, they will now have to fork out an extra $5 than they may be used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines will now charge an extra $5 to check your second bag at the airport.<\/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":[396,476,636,3173,4744,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-baggage-fees","category-checked-baggage","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372123","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=372123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372124,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372123\/revisions\/372124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}