{"id":97167520,"date":"2010-08-18T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/airtran-airways-increases-checked-bag-fee\/"},"modified":"2010-08-18T14:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:31:00","slug":"airtran-airways-increases-checked-bag-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/airtran-airways-increases-checked-bag-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"AirTran Airways Increases Checked Bag Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/8\/airtran_coa.jpg\" alt=\"AirTran Airways\" title=\"AirTran Airways\" width=\"151\" height=\"92\" align=\"left\" \/> AirTran Airways announced on their website Wednesday that it will be upping the price of a checked bag to $20.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe increase of $5 will go into effect Wednesday September 1 for coach seats booked August 17 or later.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTed Hutcheson, a spokesman for the low-cost carrier, said AirTran was increasing the fee due to higher fuel costs.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA second bag checked on the airline costs passengers currently $25.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirTran Airways announced on their website Wednesday that it will be upping the price of a checked bag to $20. &nbsp; The increase of $5 will go into effect Wednesday September 1 for coach seats booked August 17 or later. &nbsp; Ted Hutcheson, a spokesman for the low-cost carrier, said AirTran was increasing the fee [&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-97167520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167520","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=97167520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}