{"id":402814,"date":"2026-04-10T08:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-4-other-us-carriers-raising-checked-bag-fees\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:22:42","slug":"ouch-american-airlines-joins-4-other-us-carriers-in-raising-checked-bag-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=402814","title":{"rendered":"Ouch: American Airlines Joins 4 Other US Carriers In Raising Checked Bag Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 become the latest US carrier to increase the cost of <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/thread\/are-checked-bag-fees-getting-out-of-hand\/\" >checked bags<\/a> for those traveling on basic economy tickets. This comes as the industry grapples with sky-high fuel costs, and for American, it joins other US carriers like <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span>, <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<\/a><\/span>, and <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>which have all increased the costs of checked bags in recent weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines becomes the latest US carrier to increase checked bag fees for basic economy tickets.<\/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":[396,476,636,4744,1467,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-checked-baggage","category-fuel-cost","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402814","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=402814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402815,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402814\/revisions\/402815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}