{"id":382532,"date":"2026-03-08T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airfare-warning-united-ceo-prices-rise-fuel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:45:10","slug":"airfare-warning-united-ceo-says-ticket-prices-will-rise-quickly-as-fuel-costs-skyrocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=382532","title":{"rendered":"Airfare Warning: United CEO Says Ticket Prices Will Rise \u2018Quickly\u2019 As Fuel Costs Skyrocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/expanding-iran-conflict-downfall-airline-stocks\/\" >The escalating conflict in the Middle East<\/a>, and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz, is expected to affect everyone globally at the fuel pump, especially airlines with it forecasted that this will quickly increase the cost of airfares. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> Chief Executive Officer <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255457\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/scott-kirby\/\"  >Scott Kirby<\/a><\/span> is already warning that the climbing cost of oil will increase the cost of day-to-day airfares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the conflict in the Middle East escalates, airlines brace for the impact on their pocketbooks, with United CEO warning of rising airfares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19759,396,476,1467,790,6506,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-fuel-cost","category-iran","category-scott-kirby","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382533,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382532\/revisions\/382533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}