{"id":411020,"date":"2026-04-22T22:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lufthansa-group-cuts-20000-flights-fuel-price-rises\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:12:53","slug":"fuel-price-crisis-this-major-airline-just-cut-20000-summer-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=411020","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Price Crisis: This Major Airline Just Cut 20,000 Summer Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German flag carrier<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255195\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lufthansa\/\"  >Lufthansa<\/a><\/span> has announced that it has cut 20,000 short-haul flights from its summer program across the wider Lufthansa Group in response to the rising fuel prices that have become a major byproduct of the US-Israeli attacks on Iran. The Cologne-based Star Alliance founding member says that it stands to save tens of thousands of metric tons of fuel as a result, which, in turn, will save it meaningful sums of cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cuts, which apply until October, will impact short-haul flights.<\/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":[19759,396,476,120,82,734,803],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-europe","category-germany","category-lufthansa","category-lufthansa-group"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411020","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=411020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411021,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411020\/revisions\/411021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}