{"id":26,"date":"2008-05-21T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalmediaphile.com\/2008\/05\/21\/15+To+Check+First+Bag+On+American+Airlines.aspx"},"modified":"2008-05-21T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T19:45:10","slug":"15-to-check-first-bag-on-american-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/15-to-check-first-bag-on-american-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"$15 to Check first bag on American Airlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go. The end of airline travel as we know it. American Airlines has announced substantial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aa.com\/content\/amrcorp\/pressReleases\/2008_05\/21_capacity.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">cutbacks in service<\/a>, decommissioning of aircraft, and increase of other fees from $5 to $50. <\/p>\n<p>And if you check a bag, you&#8217;ll need to cough up $15 for the first bag.<\/p>\n<p>Other airlines will surely follow.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine the ruckus when you board your plane, roller board in tow, only to find that there&#8217;s no room in the overheads since everyone and their brother will be carrying on everything on the planet?<\/p>\n<p>Buckle your seat belts, there is huge turbulence ahead. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c2f5c564-a820-4a5e-b103-55b24390b33b\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Airline%20regulations\" rel=\"tag\">Airline regulations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/travel\" rel=\"tag\">travel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/airline%20travel\" rel=\"tag\">airline travel<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go. The end of airline travel as we know it. American Airlines has announced substantial cutbacks in service, decommissioning of aircraft, and increase of other fees from $5 to $50. And if you check a bag, you&#8217;ll need to cough up $15 for the first bag. Other airlines will surely follow. Can you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Here we go. The end of airline travel as we know it. American Airlines has announced substantial cutbacks in service, decommissioning of aircraft, and increase of other fees from $5 to $50. And if you check a bag, you&#8217;ll need to cough up $15 for the first bag. Other airlines will surely follow. Can you imagine the ruckus when you board your plane, roller board in tow, only to find that there&#8217;s no room in the overheads since everyone and their brother will be carrying on everything on the planet? Buckle your seat belts, there is huge turbulence ahead. Technorati&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"Uncategorized","author_info":{"name":"Barb","url":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/author\/barb\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvFKI-q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalmediaphile.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}