{"id":383888,"date":"2026-03-10T00:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/fuel-price-rises-us-airlines-impact\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:58:28","slug":"fuel-surges-fare-hikes-why-your-flight-just-got-more-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=383888","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Surges &amp; Fare Hikes: Why Your Flight Just Got More Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3613047\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/2026-iran-aviation-crisis\/\"  >2026 Iran Crisis<\/a><\/span> continues to make headlines around the world, one of the most notable by-products has been an increase in oil prices across the globe. According to the BBC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cz0g2yg3579t\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >the benchmark price for a barrel of oil has exceeded the $100 mark for the first time since 2022<\/a>, with the air strikes that US and Israeli forces are carrying out in Iran having resulted in supply chain disruption. An oil refinery in Bahrain has also been hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carriers continue to count the costs of the conflict in the Middle East.<\/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":[19759,396,476,240,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-north-america","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383888","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=383888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383889,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383888\/revisions\/383889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}