{"id":298040,"date":"2010-02-09T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001538"},"modified":"2010-02-09T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T14:49:33","slug":"american-airlines-to-charge-8-for-blanket-and-pillow-if-youre-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298040","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines To Charge $8 For Blanket And Pillow, If You&#8217;re Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/020910-002-aa-thumb-240x180-36805.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Starting in May, American Airlines will sell blanket-and-inflatable-pillow packs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/bus\/stories\/020910dnbusaablankets.25b85c1.html\">for $8 each on domestic flights longer than 2 hours<\/a>. If your flight is under 2 hours and you tend to get cold on a plane, relax: you can&#8217;t shiver to death in under 2 hours, and by then you&#8217;ll be at your destination. Or, okay, still on the runway at your departure spot, raiding your carry-on for snacks. You might want to bring a light jacket.<\/p>\n<p>The AA blanket and pillow come with a Bed Bath &#038; Beyond coupon good for $10 off any purchase over $30. By comparison, discount airline JetBlue sells its blankets for $7, and includes a $5 off coupon for BB&#038;B with no minimum purchase.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/bus\/stories\/020910dnbusaablankets.25b85c1.html\">&#8220;American Airlines to charge $8 for blanket, pillow&#8221;<\/a> [Dallas Morning News]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in May, American Airlines will sell blanket-and-inflatable-pillow packs for $8 each on domestic flights longer than 2 hours. If your flight is under 2 hours and you tend to get cold on a plane, relax: you can&#8217;t shiver to death in under 2 hours, and by then you&#8217;ll be at your destination. Or, okay, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}