{"id":217911,"date":"2026-04-07T02:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217911"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:48:26","slug":"american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217911","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines adds unpopular new fee, but travelers can avoid it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I book flights these days, I just assume that I\u2019m going to be paying substantially more than the initial listed price due to all the fees airlines tack on. And I\u2019m not alone in this.\u00a0 One congressional report showed that about 45% of airline passengers add services that come with extra &#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/travel\/american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I book flights these days, I just assume that I\u2019m going to be paying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217911-american-airlines-adds-unpopular-new-fee-but-travelers-can-avoid-it-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}