{"id":69517,"date":"2026-03-20T06:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/fuel-spikes-flight-delays-and-storms-threaten-us-spring-break-travel\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:55:04","slug":"fuel-spikes-flight-delays-and-storms-threaten-us-spring-break-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/fuel-spikes-flight-delays-and-storms-threaten-us-spring-break-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel spikes, flight delays and storms threaten US spring break travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record 171 million passengers are expected to fly this spring, even as TSA funding lapse risks longer airport lines<\/p>\n<p>Spring breakers in the US could see their long-awaited trips to party destinations disrupted by a trifecta of issues: airport security delays, high <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/gas\">gas<\/a> prices, and chaotic weather.<\/p>\n<p>The potential for flight delays comes as US airlines expect that they will see a record-shattering spring travel season. Airlines for America, an aviation industry group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airlines.org\/news-update\/u-s-airlines-prepare-for-record-number-of-passengers-this-spring-amid-government-shutdown\/\">said <\/a>that 171 million passengers are expected to fly \u2013 a 4% increase from the 2025 spring travel period.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/spring-break-flights-travel-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record 171 million passengers are expected to fly this spring, even as TSA funding lapse risks longer airport lines Spring breakers in the US could see their long-awaited trips to party destinations disrupted by a trifecta of issues: airport security delays, high gas prices, and chaotic weather. The potential for flight delays comes as US &#8230; <a title=\"Fuel spikes, flight delays and storms threaten US spring break travel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/fuel-spikes-flight-delays-and-storms-threaten-us-spring-break-travel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fuel spikes, flight delays and storms threaten US spring break travel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}