{"id":397063,"date":"2026-03-31T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/jetblue-hikes-checked-bag-fees-rising-operating-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:50:35","slug":"jetblue-hikes-checked-bags-fees-cites-rising-operating-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=397063","title":{"rendered":"JetBlue Hikes Checked Bags Fees, Cites &#8220;Rising Operating Costs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York-based <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"24733\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/jetblue\/\"  >JetBlue Airways<\/a><\/span> has announced it will hike its checked bag fees, following the increase in operational costs as steeper fuel costs hit airlines and consumers. JetBlue&#8217;s additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetblue.com\/at-the-airport\/baggage-information\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >bag fee increase<\/a> starts at around $4, with the first checked bag for off-peak flights increasing from $35 to $39.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JetBlue announces a hike checked bag fees, balancing the need to keep fares competitive with the reality of escalating operations costs.<\/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":[396,475,4784,1147,5976,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-baggagefees","category-jetblue","category-operating-costs","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397063","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=397063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397104,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397063\/revisions\/397104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}