{"id":2538,"date":"2012-02-11T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2012-02-11T03:04:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T08:04:20","slug":"how-people-are-getting-around-airline-checked-baggage-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-people-are-getting-around-airline-checked-baggage-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"How People Are Getting Around Airline Checked Baggage Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/021112_0803_HowPeopleAr1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reports that passengers are coming up with creative techniques to avoid check baggage fees imposed by the airlines. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Travelling hundreds of miles to find airports serviced by Southwest Airlines or JetBlue \u2013 two airlines that don&#8217;t charge for the first checked bag.<\/li>\n<li>Others have taken up using airline branded credit cards which give them a host of perks but require high annual fees.<\/li>\n<li>An entire category of clothes with large pockets and plenty of storage room has become popular. Travelers are able to store a fair amount of things in clothing such as trench coats.<\/li>\n<li>Some passengers have resorted to vacuum sealing their packages \u2013 something that can significantly shrink the size of packages. They better hope that security doesn&#8217;t try to open them up though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about some of the other techniques that passengers might use, as well as what Congress is doing to make things easier for passengers click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/07\/business\/clever-ways-to-avoid-airline-baggage-fees.html?_r=2&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=baggage&amp;st=Search\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/07\/business\/clever-ways-to-avoid-airline-baggage-fees.html?_r=2&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=baggage&amp;st=Search\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/cheaptalk.org\/2012\/02\/08\/law-of-unforeseen-consequences-airline-baggage-fees\/\">Cheap Talk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports that passengers are coming up with creative techniques to avoid check baggage fees imposed by the airlines. They include: Travelling hundreds of miles to find airports serviced by Southwest Airlines or JetBlue \u2013 two airlines that don&#8217;t charge for the first checked bag. Others have taken up using airline branded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/021112_0803_HowPeopleAr1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}