{"id":387027,"date":"2026-03-15T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spring-break-airfares-skyrocket-low-cost-carriers-fuel-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:20:17","slug":"spring-break-airfares-skyrocket-low-cost-carriers-lead-price-hikes-as-fuel-crisis-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=387027","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break Airfares Skyrocket: Low-Cost Carriers Lead Price Hikes As Fuel Crisis Intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prices for spring break flights are spiking dramatically as airlines confront a sudden fuel shock layered on top of already strong seasonal demand. The latest reports from investment bank Deutsche Bank, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/airlines\/airfares-have-doubled-on-some-flights-the-sticker-shock-for-spring-travel-is-upon-us-c4b2acde?st=N7DcNM&#038;reflink=article_imessage_share\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >were analyzed by the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, have indicated that some one-way prices have more than doubled in a single week, all while the Iran-linked disruption to oil flows has sent US <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"265461\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/jet-fuel\/\"  >jet fuel<\/a><\/span> prices through the roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices are only set to continue rising.<\/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":[396,12836,1041,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-budget-travel","category-low-cost-carrier","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387027","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=387027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387028,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387027\/revisions\/387028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}