{"id":87145,"date":"2026-03-31T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87145"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:14:51","slug":"thousands-of-flights-cancelled-as-jet-fuel-costs-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/31\/thousands-of-flights-cancelled-as-jet-fuel-costs-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of flights cancelled as jet fuel costs soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZLjec.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6\" alt=\"United Airlines cancelled flights because of soaring fuel costs, cutting about 5pc of capacity on routes that are less profitable for the company - Fabrizio Bensch\/Reuters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Airlines around the world are cancelling thousands of flights after the\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2026\/03\/30\/countries-responding-to-oil-shock-as-britain-remains-silent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">war in Iran caused jet fuel prices<\/a> to more than double.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/thousands-of-flights-cancelled-as-jet-fuel-costs-soar\/ar-AA1ZKQZa?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69cb7f09dfe74a3fb5de1023de624116&amp;ei=45\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Airlines around the world are cancelling thousands of flights after the\u00a0war in Iran caused jet fuel prices to more than double.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Heathrow-airport.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87146,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87145\/revisions\/87146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}