{"id":94608877,"date":"2011-06-16T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/conan-o-brien-gets-to-the-bottom-of-airline-baggage-fees-video\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T08:44:43","slug":"conan-o-brien-gets-to-the-bottom-of-airline-baggage-fees-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/conan-o-brien-gets-to-the-bottom-of-airline-baggage-fees-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Conan O&#8217;Brien Gets to the Bottom of Airline Baggage Fees (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Department of Transportation reported that US airlines made a staggering $3.4 billion from baggage fees alone in the past year. The report attracted attention from the national media, including comedian Conan O&#8217;Brien. Earlier this week, Mr. O&#8217;Brien attempted to get to the bottom of the baggage fee fiasco during an interview with ficticious airline spokesman Tony Kent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While O&#8217;Brien makes light of the situation, many Americans are far from happy with the growing cost of airline fees. In addition to the $3.4 billion in bag fees, the report states that airlines made an additional $2.3 billion off itinerary changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Department of Transportation reported that US airlines made a staggering $3.4 billion from baggage fees alone in the past year. The report attracted attention from the national media, including comedian Conan O&#8217;Brien. Earlier this week, Mr. O&#8217;Brien attempted to get to the bottom of the baggage fee fiasco during an interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168458,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608877\/revisions\/97168458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}