Jet-Fuel Prices Are Spiking and Trump's Advisers Are Worried

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Exclusive: The airline industry is warning the Trump administration about the economic impact of high jet-fuel prices, saying the Iran war needs to end soon.

Jet-Fuel Prices Are Spiking and Trump’s Advisers Are Worried
Administration officials have spoken to the airline industry, which has voiced concerns about the rising costs.
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9:14 PM · May 6, 2026

Exclusive: The airline industry is warning the Trump administration about the economic impact of high jet-fuel prices, saying the Iran war needs to end soon.

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Jet-Fuel Prices Are Spiking and Trump’s Advisers Are Worried

Administration officials have spoken to the airline industry, which has voiced concerns about the rising costs

By Brian Schwartz and Alison Sider
May 6, 2026 9:00 pm ET


President Trump has taken steps to bring an end to the Iran war, a conflict that has triggered a sharp increase in the price of jet fuel. Shawn Thew/EPA/Shutterstock

Former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu delivered a warning to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a recent visit to Washington: Already-high airfares will surge if the war in Iran doesn’t end soon.

Sununu, a Republican who represents some of the biggest airlines as the president of the industry group Airlines for America, has for weeks sounded the alarm to Trump administration officials about the economic fallout from high jet-fuel prices. The war, Sununu has argued, must come to a close soon, or things will get worse.

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[Girard442]

1. Flying NY to CA in July. Maybe.

Got the tix already, but still.

[dem4decades]

2. Sununu should just tell Trump that the PGA golfers are made because it's costing them too

much for their private jets to fly to play golf. Trump would end it immediately, there's nothing more he cares about than golf, famous golfers and being seen as a hero to them.

[underpants]

3. Whew....man....didn't see that coming.

[Jughead]

4. Now

They’re worried?