To ask whether you foresee your summer travel plans proceeding?

Is it scaremongering when fuel shipments literally can't get through ?

Where does it come from ?

Where does the UK source it's fuel because alarm bells are ringing but they tell us we are ok ,I wish they would tell us why we will be ok ?

That is enough time to pop out and explore the local area?

This. I'm sick of the scaremongering.

Only holiday in the UK so I'm sure they will go ahead. Haven't been abroad since 2012 none of my children have ever been. I just know if we had booked this year it would be tempting fate too much 🙈

Yes I'm 80% certain flights will be cancelled due to a lack of jet fuel.
Also once we get there hire car /fuel etc may also be an issue

Ultimately you can't do anything about the war, but eventually governments will face the issue of a/. run out of fuel and everything goes pear shaped or b/. buy said fuel from the two people who have it in abundance, trump and Putin, at surely vastly inflated prices.

I think the fear of it running out is a bit of a media storm. My husband is currently away on business in Eastern Europe and they’ve not heard anything like that.

that said I love to travel and it is quite possible it will happen like anything else in the world could happen. We have Europe booked for may and July…we hope to go much further in around autumn but we haven’t booked that yet which is unusual for us I admit.

Im just presuming if it does happen, flights will just get cancelled and refunded. I would just be making sure that if you’ve got separate bookings for air bnb or hotels or whatever , that you’ve got that covered too.

It will be fine, not flying but fuel will be more £££

Our big summer trip is in 3 weeks, I’m hoping we might just pull it off before things deteriorate 😬

I'm enjoying UK mini breaks at the moment. Just had a lovely couple of days in Richmond, stress free. Might venture up to the Lakes or into Wales. As I'm retired will go last minute when weather is good.

We haven’t booked anything in the summer for the first time in several years - nothing to do with this, we’re waiting on whether ds1 can join us - so we can play it by ear…which could go either way.

I'm travelling by train, so currently don't foresee any issues.

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Trips planned to Cyprus next month and Greece in June. Absolutely assuming they are going ahead. Especially excited to discover that Greece have suspended the EES requirements for British passport holders
But then we flew twice during covid - once during the short September window of 2020 and then again in June 2021 the week after flights resumed and we were 'allowed' to leave the country (still blows my mind when I think back)
I'm just an optimist I think 😁

Just no idea. I really hope they do, we only go on one "big" holiday a year, and we're so looking forward to it. Have to say, if we hadn't already booked, I wouldn't be booking outside the UK now, though I find holidaying here very expensive and generally not as nice as abroad.

We’ve got a wedding to go to abroad this summer so if our flights were cancelled the wedding would be off - nothing anyone can do about it if it happens. I’d be sad not to go but we’re only booked for a small number of days so not the end of the world. We’ve got a cruise booked as well and my understanding was that the 6 weeks of fuel related to jet fuel so think the ship we’re due to go on would be fine?!

We booked a long haul just before all the fighting started, transiting through Doha. Elements of the flight have already been cancelled and rebooked and times changed several times already. Chance of going? I’m not holding my breath.

I'm going abroad by train so not currently worried.

Trying to to worry too much and hoping it's just scaremongering. Completely out of our control too, if you've booked and can't get a refund - that's too bad. Can't be blamed for some orange maniac! Luckily I know I can get most of my holiday back and I'm upset because my little one is excited so will need to suck it up and plan for something just as nice here if it does happen x

I would be surprised if there were mass holiday cancellations by airlines à la covid. That’s not to say it won’t happen, but I would be really surprised.

I wouldn’t be surprised if airlines start asking for fuel supplements.

Ive got Spain booked for August. Not sure if shorter flights are more or less likely to be cancelled. The refund would be cheaper for the airline but then they also require less fuel.

I have two booked and I fully expect them both to take place, possibly with some minor flight changes, and possibly with a fuel supplement added. Jet fuel isn’t going to run out, there may be less than we need, so some flights will be cancelled, but by no means all of them. Airlines will consolidate flights, send bigger planes etc.

www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/aviation-fuel-crisis-trump-uk-iran-b2958417.html?lid=9djkd9u527ge

I trust Simon Calder who isn't overly concerned

SC is usually very good on the consumer side of aviation, passenger rights, etc...he's not always quite so good when it comes to operational matters.

We have a package holiday to the Canaries booked for July - I am fairly optimistic, but would expect a full refund if it didn’t go ahead