{"id":55470,"date":"2026-04-02T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=55470"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:14:12","slug":"united-jetblue-raise-checked-bag-fees-because-of-higher-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=55470","title":{"rendered":"United, JetBlue raise checked bag fees because of higher fuel costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">April 2 (UPI) &#8212; United Airlines on Thursday said that checking baggage will soon cost more per bag because of rising fuel costs, making it the second airline to increase fees this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">United&#8217;s price hikes for checking bags follows JetBlue increasing the price for checked bags earlier this week for the same reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The cost of jet fuel has increased roughly 80% since the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran started, and gone up even more since Iran has choked off the Strait of Hormuz in response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;United is raising first and second checked bag fees by $10 for customers traveling in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, and Latin America beginning with tickets purchased Friday, April 3,&#8221; CNBC reported the airline as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2026\/04\/02\/united-jetblue-increase-checked-baggage-fees\/9291775172342\/\">Upi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2 (UPI) &#8212; United Airlines on Thursday said that checking baggage will soon cost more per bag because of rising fuel costs, making it the second airline to increase fees this week. United&#8217;s price hikes for checking bags follows JetBlue increasing the price for checked bags earlier this week for the same reason. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[36761,23983,36760],"class_list":["post-55470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-fuel-costs","tag-increases","tag-rising-expenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55473,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55470\/revisions\/55473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}