{"id":482616,"date":"2026-06-17T23:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/482616\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:02:43","slug":"small-airline-has-horrific-year-amid-soaring-jet-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/482616\/","title":{"rendered":"Small airline has \u2018horrific\u2019 year amid soaring jet fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The last year had been \u201chorrific\u201d he said, and the business had been \u201cdecimated\u201d since Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cJust as we got back on our feet along comes our friend in America and they\u2019ve just gone hog wild. In January, fuel was stable &#8230; and since then it\u2019s just gone crazy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLast year we cut five sectors, and [the] last two years we sold six aircraft &#8230; I mean, it\u2019s just, it\u2019s brutal, absolutely brutal. Meanwhile, our fuel supplier is making billions and billions of dollars profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">January and February had been really good months for the airline, Crawford said, but now all airlines were having issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">He said whatever issues small airlines had, the bigger ones would be having it worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c[I\u2019m] not sure what\u2019s going to happen next &#8230; every morning you wake up and it\u2019s like Russian roulette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cEverybody is hurting in this country, everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last year had been \u201chorrific\u201d he said, and the business had been \u201cdecimated\u201d since Covid-19. \u201cJust as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4376,534,138,1651,2678,6871,31144,28372,1304,111,139,69,12937,1560,154770,4499,42370,379],"class_list":["post-482616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-airline","tag-amid","tag-business","tag-digital","tag-fuel","tag-has","tag-horrific","tag-jet","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prices","tag-report","tag-reporters","tag-small","tag-soaring","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482616","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=482616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}