Europe has 6 weeks of jet fuel left *[title amended]

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What's people's thoughts on this - is it scare mongering?
My main holiday isn't for another wee while but are we going to see disruptions/cancellations to rival COVID times?

• [Title amended at OP's request to make it clear that news reports are referring to jet / aviation fuel]

DH said North sea oil produces jet fuel unfortunately not enough for all. Norway own the fields apparently.

Think there’s going to be an increase in electric car sales. Noticed there are a lot more public electric charging points. 1 local retail park had non a few weeks ago. Now there’s 10 but you can sit in Costa while your car charges so sales will go up there.

This is what you get for treating trump and netanyahu as normal politicians/human beings. They are neither.

Electric car @wimin123🤣

People are being massacred across the Middle East, in Iran, in Lebanon, in Gaza, also in Sudan, and you’re all just talking about your holidays being affected. The dissonance is astounding.

Must be AI.
No one human is this simplistic.

You're in holidays, not politics.

The poster I replied to was moaning about UK trains.

As someone who also travels internationally regularly by train, and is also just back from Italy, I don't find it that difficult. I usually use Interrail passes, which allow for much greater flexibility.

Every form of travel has its drawbacks. Airports are in the middle of nowhere, it's a pain to get to them especially when arranging onward travel, baggage is restricted unless you pay extra, check in and boarding is very time consuming, and most airports only have one or two flights a day to any given destination, sometimes at very inconvenient hours. And of course, there are the delays...

Obviously, if someone has booked a flight to somewhere like a Greek island, it's never going to be an easy option to get there overland- it's an emergency alternative.

You can get there by train. The train goes across on a ferry!

Maybe not visit the "Holidays" forum if talk of holidays offends you so much? 🤔

I work for a major British airline, so far no talk about ‘only 6 weeks of jet fuel’, it’s business as usual. Believe me the staff are the first to gossip about the ins and outs and that’s not anything we’ve been discussing

While a lot of people overstate how bad UK trains are, the West Coast Main Line is pretty appalling (not as bad as the worst routes on Deutsche Bahn but it's up there). To make a viable connection to Italy or Spain you really need to be on the 9.01 Eurostar at the latest, which is hard to do if you don't live in South East England. And that's without worrying if the train is going to be late or cancelled which it very well could be.

Where did you go in Italy and how long did it take you to get there? I can see that interrail can add flexibility but surely there's a limit to how much flexibility is on offer if you need to use high speed to get there. Did you do the journey within one day?

Of course everyone didn't vote him in. Just most people. America has had loads of controversial presidents, yet they portray themselves as on the side of truth and liberty. I just wish the UK didn't follow everything they b**y do!

I bloomin well hope not , we fly in 4 weeks and have waited 2 years for this holiday
I think alot of it is scaremongering to be honest

Am just hoping it’s scaremongering too - with luck airlines will condense existing bookings so altho we may have to go on an earlier/later flight, we will still fly and other’s who’ve yet to plan holidays will hold off booking until we all know where we stand.

Ive had an email off jet2 this morning saying the usual process of sending boarding passes 28 days before the flight has changed and its 14 days before now
Ive also seen on the hotel page ( where we will be staying) alot of people have already had their flight times/dates changed between now and july but so far ours looks to be what we booked

Well if things carry on as they are the World Cup, which the US are hosting, will be interesting in terms of attendance

I read this morning that Lufthansa has reduced its route capacity.

It’s fine. There’s a ceasefire and Hormuz is open. Australia still might actually run out though. China has also been sending ships through this entire time.

The entire world needs to acknowledge that the US destabilised the entire world and murdered school children.

I wouldn’t trust security at that event. The US can’t even keep their NASA scientists safe.

Well in the UK the jets have been on a mission to fly around as much as possible it seems!

That might not be down to potential fuel shortages TBH, there's been a lot going on at Lufty recently that didn't have much to do with oil.

Very recent events at LH might be a case of Airline Management 101 :" never let a crisis go to waste".

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260416-lufthansa-accelerates-cost-cuts-closing-subsidiary-as-fuel-prices-surge

In the 80s we used to get the coach from UK to Finland as it was cheaper than flights. Ifrc the route was something like London - ferry to Belgium - through the Netherlands or Luxembourg - Germany - Denmark - ferry to Sweden - ferry to Helsinki I think it took about 3 days. Certainly not ideal but it’s doable!

We did it by car a few times when I was a kid but there were more ferry options then but it took days. Days sat in the boot of our volvo in the summer heat with no air conditioning squashed in with all the luggage - great start to a holiday

Well I COULD walk from London to Manchester. Possible but no one does it for a reason.