{"id":411096,"date":"2026-04-22T23:53:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/alaska-airlines-ceo-fare-increases-high-prices-fuel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:53:47","slug":"fare-increases-are-sticking-alaska-ceo-warns-higher-prices-are-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=411096","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fare Increases Are Sticking&#8221;: Alaska CEO Warns Higher Prices Are Here To Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254956\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/alaska-airlines\/\"  >Alaska Airlines<\/a><\/span> CEO Ben Minicucci has suggested the airline industry&#8217;s recent fuel-related fare increases are here to stay, even if fuel prices eventually drop back to normal. Alaska&#8217;s <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258728\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/fares\/\"  >fares<\/a><\/span> have gone up by an average of 15% since the outbreak of 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>, and are likely to remain elevated for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As fuel costs soar, airlines worldwide are implementing drastic measures.<\/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":[396,476,516,1154,1467,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska-airlines","category-fares","category-fuel-cost","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411096","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=411096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411106,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411096\/revisions\/411106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}