{"id":91289,"date":"2026-06-26T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=91289"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:50:32","slug":"airfare-remains-expensive-even-though-jet-fuel-is-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/26\/airfare-remains-expensive-even-though-jet-fuel-is-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Airfare remains expensive even though jet fuel is cheaper"},"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\"> < 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\/AA26CGmv.img?w=768&h=512&m=6&x=414&y=129&s=314&d=314\" alt=\"Delta CEO Ed Bastian said airline fares haven\u2019t dropped as fast as jet fuel prices because \u2018there's not a lot of supply we can bring in because the air traffic control system is congested\u2019 (Getty)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though jet fuel prices have fallen more than 40 percent from February, American consumers aren\u2019t feeling much relief from airfare prices that jumped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/airfare-remains-expensive-even-though-jet-fuel-is-cheaper\/ar-AA26CwHk?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=6a3e286280984f2ca567513bd6b9ec38&ei=17\">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>Though jet fuel prices have fallen more than 40 percent from February, American consumers aren\u2019t feeling much relief from airfare prices that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ship-Hormuz.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91289","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=91289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91290,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91289\/revisions\/91290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}