{"id":184329,"date":"2026-04-03T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184329\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:40:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-united-airlines-raises-checked-bag-fees-for-flights-purchased-starting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184329\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | United Airlines raises checked bag fees for flights purchased starting today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air travelers will now pay more to check a bag on United Airlines as new fee increases take effect starting today.<\/p>\n<p>United said for tickets purchased on or after today, the cost to check a first and second bag will increase by $10, while the fee for a third checked bag will rise by $50 in most markets.<\/p>\n<p>The airline said the price changes apply to most customers traveling on United flights.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, United said some passengers will still be able to check a bag for free.<\/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,\u201d the airline said.<\/p>\n<p>United also said customers in most markets can receive a $5 discount by prepaying for their checked bags online at least 24 hours before departure.<\/p>\n<p>The airline did not give a specific reason for raising the checked bag fees.<\/p>\n<p>The increase comes as JetBlue also raised its checked bag fees earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air travelers will now pay more to check a bag on United Airlines as new fee increases take&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10997,98,100,99,74153,74152,9,24,63,15967],"class_list":{"0":"post-184329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-checking-bags","13":"tag-jet-blue","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-airlines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}