{"id":671,"date":"2026-05-12T08:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:39:45","slug":"theres-too-much-risk-britons-on-changing-holiday-plans-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There\u2019s too much risk\u2019: Britons on changing holiday plans amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prospect of flight cancellations and petrol shortages prompt people to switch from air and road to rail and bus<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East crisis, now in its 11th week, has resulted in higher fuel prices for drivers and prompted fears of jet fuel shortages, rising air fares and cancelled flights.<\/p>\n<p>Given the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/05\/airline-seats-cut-jet-fuel-prices\">uncertain outlook<\/a>, prospect of higher travel costs and potential disruption, we asked whether people had changed their holiday plans.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/12\/britons-changing-holiday-plans-iran-war-flight-cancellations-petrol-shortages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospect of flight cancellations and petrol shortages prompt people to switch from air and road to rail and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}