{"id":250167,"date":"2026-04-03T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250167\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:45:07","slug":"higher-baggage-fees-hit-san-diego-travelers-newsradio-600-kogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250167\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher Baggage Fees Hit San Diego Travelers | Newsradio 600 KOGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re catching a flight out of San Diego International Airport, expect to pay more when you check your bags.<\/p>\n<p>Airports across the country are hiking the price of baggage fees to offset the rising cost of jet fuel prices. <\/p>\n<p>San Diego International Airport reports fuel prices have jumped 85-percent since the war in Iran began February 28th.\u00a0That increase is now being passed on to travelers. <\/p>\n<p>Jet Blue, American and United have all raised baggage fees from five to 10 dollars per checked bag.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>United Airlines\u2019 first checked bag fee for most passengers will now be $45 if prepaid, and $50 if purchased within 24 hours of a flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnited Chase credit card holders, MileagePlus Premier members, active military members and customers traveling in premium cabins can still check a bag for free, and customers in most markets will still enjoy a $5 discount if they prepay for their bags online 24 hours before their flight,\u201d United said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re catching a flight out of San Diego International Airport, expect to pay more when you check&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5172,111406,103623,66938,23,100,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-250167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-airports","9":"tag-baggage-hike","10":"tag-fuel-prices","11":"tag-kogo-news","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-headlines","16":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}