{"id":189401,"date":"2026-04-08T10:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189401\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:34:35","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-delta-southwest-join-airlines-raising-checked-bag-fees-amid-high-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189401\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Delta, Southwest join airlines raising checked bag fees amid high fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more airlines have announced increased checked bag fees due to high fuel prices amid the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Delta and Southwest are joining the growing list of air carriers raising their rates to offset soaring jet fuel costs.<\/p>\n<p>Starting this week, both airlines will now charge $45 for the first bag and $55 for the second, which is an additional $10 on each.<\/p>\n<p>A third bag on Delta will now be $200 \u2014 a $50 jump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These updates are part of Delta&#8217;s ongoing review of pricing across its business and reflect the impact of evolving global conditions and industry dynamics,&#8221; the carrier said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two more airlines have announced increased checked bag fees due to high fuel prices amid the war in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,18128,63309,62201,9,24,63,8600],"class_list":{"0":"post-189401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-delta","12":"tag-iran-war","13":"tag-middle-east-conflict","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-southwest-airlines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189401","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=189401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}