{"id":404224,"date":"2026-04-12T21:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-basic-economy-overhead-bin-ban\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:29:36","slug":"report-southwests-cheapest-fares-may-soon-come-with-no-overhead-bin-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=404224","title":{"rendered":"Report: Southwest&#8217;s Cheapest Fares May Soon Come With No Overhead Bin Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> is reportedly considering stripping <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"263879\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/basic-economy\/\"  >basic economy<\/a><\/span> passengers of their overhead bin access, a move that would force millions of its customers to purchase baggage access they currently enjoy for free. Under the proposal, Basic passengers would no longer be permitted a carry-on bag, leaving them with a smaller personal item only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move would eliminate free carry-ons for Basic fares.<\/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":[396,476,2769,4112,3183,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-basic-economy","category-carry-on","category-economy-class","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404224","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=404224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404291,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404224\/revisions\/404291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}