{"id":385631,"date":"2026-03-12T23:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-new-zealand-cuts-1000-flights-fuel-price-surge\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:36:28","slug":"this-airline-just-cut-thousands-of-flights-due-to-the-fuel-price-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=385631","title":{"rendered":"This Airline Just Cut Thousands Of Flights Due To The Fuel Price Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a consequence of the events unfolding in the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"32947\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\"  >Middle East<\/a><\/span>, Air New Zealand is reportedly planning to cut over a thousand flights in the coming months, citing the rising fuel prices and the economic impact it is having on the airline. While this only accounts for a small portion of the airline&#8217;s scheduled operations, the number of passengers impacted is quite significant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flights cut between now and early May account for 5% of the airline&#8217;s schedule, but impact over 40,000 passengers.<\/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":[19759,1395,396,476,1467,1695,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-air-new-zealand","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-fuel-cost","category-middle-east","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385631","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=385631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385632,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385631\/revisions\/385632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}