{"id":536205,"date":"2026-03-21T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536205\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:27:10","slug":"united-airlines-to-cut-5-of-scheduled-flights-as-fuel-prices-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536205\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines to cut 5% of scheduled flights as fuel prices soar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">March 20 (Reuters) &#8211; United Airlines (<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/UAL\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:UAL;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UAL&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAL<\/a>) CEO Scott \u200cKirby said on \u200cFriday the airline will cancel \u200babout 5% of this year&#8217;s planned flights in the short \u200cterm, as \u2060jet fuel prices surge due to \u2060the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;If prices stayed \u200bat this \u200blevel, \u200bit would mean \u200can extra $11 billion in annual expense just for jet fuel,&#8221; Kirby said in a \u200cmessage to \u200bemployees posted \u200bon \u200bits website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The airline&#8217;s \u200ccurrent plan is \u200bto restore \u200bthe full schedule this fall, Kirby \u200badded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200cby Akanksha Khushi in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by \u200bAlan Barona)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 20 (Reuters) &#8211; United Airlines (UAL) CEO Scott \u200cKirby said on \u200cFriday the airline will cancel \u200babout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,127158,15972],"class_list":{"0":"post-536205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-scott-kirby","10":"tag-united-airlines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}