{"id":94691877,"date":"2011-03-11T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/american-airlines-testing-self-tagging-bags-at-austin-airport\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T11:14:00","slug":"american-airlines-testing-self-tagging-bags-at-austin-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/american-airlines-testing-self-tagging-bags-at-austin-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Testing &#8216;Self-Tagging&#8217; Bags at Austin Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/3\/BagTag.jpg\" alt=\"American Airlines Letting Travelers Tag Their own Luggag at Austin Airport for Six Months, IMG Cred: USA Today\" title=\"American Airlines Letting Travelers Tag Their own Luggag at Austin Airport for Six Months, IMG Cred: USA Today\" \/>American Airlines announced a six-month trial of letting travelers tag their own luggage Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nUp until this point, self-tagging in the U.S. was only done by airline agents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nThe trial run will be conducted at Austin airport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nTravelers will be able to print their tags from kiosks without being shadowed by an airline agent. However, people will still have to wait in a line to see an agent for tag validation and an ID check.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nAgents will still be available should you have any questions about self-tagging.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nSelf-tagging will also be tested by Alaska Airlines and Air Canada according to the report by <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2011\/03\/american-airlines-introduces-do-it-yourself-bag-tagging-at-austin-airport\/147253\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines announced a six-month trial of letting travelers tag their own luggage Thursday. Up until this point, self-tagging in the U.S. was only done by airline agents. The trial run will be conducted at Austin airport. &nbsp; Travelers will be able to print their tags from kiosks without being shadowed by an airline agent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691877","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=94691877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}