{"id":136819,"date":"2022-03-13T23:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/us-airlines-cutting-back-on-flights-over-skyrocketing-oil-prices"},"modified":"2022-03-13T23:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T06:24:37","slug":"us-airlines-cutting-back-on-flights-over-skyrocketing-oil-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/us-airlines-cutting-back-on-flights-over-skyrocketing-oil-prices","title":{"rendered":"US airlines cutting back on flights over skyrocketing oil prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-airlines-cutting-back-on-flights-over-skyrocketing-oil-prices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>US airlines have begun to scale back the number of flights they are offering to customers, citing the skyrocketing cost of fuel that has been exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Air said it will reduce its offerings by as much as 5% in the first half of this year citing \u201cthe sharp rise in fuel costs.\u201d Allegiant Airlines will cut flights by somewhere between 5% and 10% in the second quarter, the company\u2019s chief financial officer said.<\/p>\n<p>Allegiant\u2019s financial chief said the company plans to scale back its flight schedule primarily during times of weaker demand. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-08\/airlines-begin-to-cut-flying-as-they-grapple-with-fuel-cost-jump?srnd=premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">His comments were reported by Bloomberg News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US airlines have begun to scale back the number of flights they are offering to customers, citing the skyrocketing cost of fuel that has been exacerbated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Alaska Air said it will reduce its offerings by as much as 5% in the first half of this year citing \u201cthe sharp [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}