Scandinavia's SAS airline is cancelling nearly 1,200 flights in May as it braces for soaring jet fuel prices as a result of the closure of the Straits of Hormuz..
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Europe is bracing for potential jet fuel shortages resulting from the ongoing international conflict in the Middle East. If your flight is affected, what are your rights?
Scandinavian airline SAS is to cancel at least a thousand flights in April after the war in the Middle East sent fuel prices surging.
The risk of jet fuel shortages in Europe grows each day the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, although it isn't clear when exactly supplies will run out and what that will mean for travellers.
Long queues at Kastrup. File photo.Lyssna: Chaos at Copenhagen airport with passengers missing flights due to security queNew security routines continue to cause long queues at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport which is used…
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Ryanair said Wednesday that it would reduce its winter schedule in Europe as the Irish no-frills airline and other carriers come up against higher fuel costs caused by the US-Iran war.
Sweden's government warned on Tuesday of a potential jet fuel shortage in the Scandinavian country due to supply disruptions caused by the Middle East war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Ryanair, Transavia, Volotea and other low-cost airlines are feeling the financial pain from high jet fuel prices as a result of the Middle East war and are cutting flights.
Sweden's government said that the country might need to ration fuel – but there are no imminent plans of doing so – if the Middle East war drags on.
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