{"id":367534,"date":"2026-04-07T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367534\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:29:10","slug":"air-new-zealand-cuts-flight-schedules-raises-ticket-prices-amid-fuel-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367534\/","title":{"rendered":"Air New Zealand cuts flight schedules, raises ticket prices amid fuel crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00f6khan Erg\u00f6\u00e7\u00fcn<\/p>\n<p>April 07, 2026\u2022Update: April 07, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Air New Zealand announced further reductions to flight schedules and ticket price increases due to the high cost of jet fuel.  <\/p>\n<p>The airline applied these changes to some May and June services, affecting 4% of flights and 1% of total passengers, according to Radio New Zealand&#8217;s report on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The global cost of jet fuel reached around $230 a barrel on the Platts benchmark, rising from below $100 before the start of the US-Israel-Iran War. <\/p>\n<p>The company stated the domestic network experienced only minor adjustments to maintain connectivity across specific regions.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier offered refunds or credits to customers whose updated flights did not suit their travel plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"G\u00f6khan Erg\u00f6\u00e7\u00fcn April 07, 2026\u2022Update: April 07, 2026 Air New Zealand announced further reductions to flight schedules and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,42976],"class_list":{"0":"post-367534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-oil-price"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}