{"id":426,"date":"2011-06-10T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/airlines-scrap-bag-fees-for-service-members-following-viral-video-flap\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T07:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T11:22:44","slug":"airlines-scrap-bag-fees-for-service-members-following-viral-video-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/airlines-scrap-bag-fees-for-service-members-following-viral-video-flap\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlines Scrap Bag Fees for Service Members Following Viral Video Flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines, Delta, and United-Continental have all revised their policies on extra bag fees for United States service men and women traveling on orders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The move comes a week after two servicemen were charged $2,800 in bag fees on a recent Delta flight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The incident was captured on video and went viral on the internet, causing outrage among the American public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Delta issued an apology to the service members involved in the incident and pledged to reimburse the fees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Under the new bag policies, troops will be allowed four free checked bags on Delta and United-Continental flights and up to five free bags on all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/american-airlines-aa\" target=\"_blank\">American Airlines flights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/story\/2011\/06\/After-soldiers-video-goes-viral-more-bags-will-fly-free\/48212264\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Flickr:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/soldiersmediacenter\/3037879519\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The U.S. Army<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines, Delta, and United-Continental have all revised their policies on extra bag fees for United States service men and women traveling on orders. &nbsp; The move comes a week after two servicemen were charged $2,800 in bag fees on a recent Delta flight. &nbsp; The incident was captured on video and went viral on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98902084,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/98902084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}