{"id":502463,"date":"2026-03-29T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:19:08","slug":"us-travelers-fuel-greece-summer-travel-boom-despite-middle-east-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/502463\/","title":{"rendered":"US travelers fuel Greece summer travel boom despite Middle East turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP22298322981964-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"US travelers fuel Greece summer travel boom despite Middle East turmoil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP22298322981964-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[AP]<\/p>\n<p>Despite the turbulence in the Middle East, international inbound airline seats are already up 8% from last year for the summer season, exceeding 30 million.<\/p>\n<p>The appetite for Greece appears particularly acute among US travelers, as carriers there have already launched or are about to direct flights, some earlier than in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>United Airlines started flights from Newark on March 6, while Delta Air Lines launched routes from New York (JFK) on March 9 and Atlanta from March 10.<\/p>\n<p>Service ramps up further late in March, with Delta adding Boston on March 29 and American Airlines beginning Philadelphia-Athens flights March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Airline executives say higher fuel costs added about $400 million per carrier but have not altered first-quarter profit forecasts amid strong ticket sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[AP] Despite the turbulence in the Middle East, international inbound airline seats are already up 8% from last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,632,1219,387,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-502463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-middle-east","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}