{"id":369059,"date":"2026-04-08T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369059\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:06:10","slug":"air-chathams-looks-to-cut-schedule-in-the-face-of-soaring-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369059\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Chathams looks to cut schedule in the face of soaring fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4LRFLB8_Air_Chathams_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"915\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: Supplied\n<\/p>\n<p>Air Chathams will axe a significant number of its flight due to the global fuel crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Duane Emeny told Checkpoint that the airline will cut around 45 per cent of flights into Whakatane, 22 percent of flights into Whanganui and 10 percent into Kapiti.<\/p>\n<p>Emeny says the price of fuel means the airline is unable to even cover its direct costs.<\/p>\n<p>He says the airline had previously paid around half-a-million dollars a month for fuel &#8211; that&#8217;s now roughly doubled to over a million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>It follows Air New Zealand&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/business\/591652\/air-nz-cuts-more-flights-from-schedules-lifts-ticket-prices-amid-fuel-crisis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trim its flights further<\/a>, in May and June.<\/p>\n<p>The national carrier revealed its fuel bill has doubled to $8.5 million a day, forcing it to raise some fares.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Air Chathams added a $20 surcharge on all its tickets due to the rising cost of aviation fuel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Supplied Air Chathams will axe a significant number of its flight due to the global fuel crisis.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-369059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369059","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=369059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}