Mission Statement. The Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java.
United Offers 'Free' Checked Bags for a Year, for a Fee. United is raising the fee for a second checked bag from $70 to $100. United Airlines will let you check bags for a year free of baggage service charges, provided you pay upfront. The airline now offers an annual subscription service for checked bags. The cost starts at $349 per year, which covers one checked bag on flights in the continental United States for one person. The program, announced earlier this week, is the first of its kind.
Most of the major airline carriers, other than JetBlue and Southwest, charge a fee for checked baggage on domestic flights. However, on international flights, only Alaska Airlines, Sun Country Airlines and in some cases, American Airlines, charge a fee for the first bag. Lufthansa, which flies primarily to destinations in Europe, does not charge any baggage fees, allowing passengers to check up to three bags on international flights. Air Canada also does not charge for the first checked bag on flights between the U.S. and Canada.