{"id":2995,"date":"2024-03-28T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2024-03-28T12:16:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:16:56","slug":"why-us-airlines-charge-for-checked-baggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/03\/28\/why-us-airlines-charge-for-checked-baggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Why US airlines charge for checked baggage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They charge for baggage because of an obscure tax rule &#8211; airlines must pay tax to the Federal government for each ticket they sell. But that tax does not apply to baggage fees. Thus, they &#8220;unbundle&#8221; the cost of the ticket and the baggage fee &#8211; paying the tax only on the ticket and none on the baggage. As long as this tax rule exists, we will have to pay baggage fees &#8211; the price of which seems aribitrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US airlines charge for checked baggage because of an obscure tax rule &#8211; there&#8217;s a Federal tax on tickets but none on baggage fees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}