{"id":91998,"date":"2026-04-29T16:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/southwest-ceo-addresses-rising-fuel-costs-amid-war-with-iran-and-its-impact-on-travelers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:44:04","slug":"southwest-ceo-addresses-rising-fuel-costs-amid-war-with-iran-and-its-impact-on-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/southwest-ceo-addresses-rising-fuel-costs-amid-war-with-iran-and-its-impact-on-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest CEO addresses rising fuel costs amid war with Iran and its impact on travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On average, domestic airfare is up about 18% compared to last year. A key factor is the surging fuel costs for airlines amid the war with Iran. Now, several low-cost carriers have asked the government for help as they grapple with the high cost of fuel. Kris Van Cleave spoke with Southwest&#8217;s CEO about the impact of fuel costs.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/southwest-ceo-addresses-rising-fuel-costs-amid-war-with-iran-and-its-impact-on-travelers\/\">Travel &#8211; CBSNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On average, domestic airfare is up about 18% compared to last year. A key factor is the surging fuel costs for airlines amid the war with Iran. Now, several low-cost carriers have asked the government for help as they grapple with the high cost of fuel. Kris Van Cleave spoke with Southwest&#8217;s CEO about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6139,68,3862,10671,5323,261,1728,7181,8324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}