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(PA Graphics) \u00b7 PA Graphics <\/p>\nSome 120 flights from the UK this month have been cancelled, new figures show, as jet fuel prices surge and fears of shortages grow.<\/p>\n
Aviation analytics company Cirium said airlines have axed 120 of the 22,613 departures initially scheduled from UK airports in May, equivalent to 0.53%.<\/p>\n
The number of outbound flights planned for June is 36 lower than a week ago.<\/p>\n
This represents a 0.2% reduction and means capacity for the month has fallen by 7,972 seats.<\/p>\n
The final week of May is a peak period for holidays as it is half-time at many schools.<\/p>\n
For all flights globally, some 13,005 planned for May were cancelled between April 10 and April 21, equivalent to 1.5%.<\/p>\n
That reduced capacity by almost two million seats.<\/p>\n
Julia Lo Bue-Said, chief executive of Advantage Travel Partnership, a network of independent travel agents, said airlines are \u201cassessing poor performance flights and consolidating or cancelling as required\u201d.<\/p>\n
She added that UK departures to popular summer hotspots \u201cremain unaffected\u201d and insisted \u201ccustomers can continue to book with confidence\u201d.<\/p>\n
Paul Charles, founder of travel consultancy The PC Agency, said: \u201cAirlines are now being forced to cut flights and make difficult decisions ahead of the peak season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is better for them to cancel flights well in advance so that passengers are less inconvenienced than a last-minute change of plan.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAs the Iran conflict continues, there will need to be many more cancellations as the jet fuel supply is squeezed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lufthansa\u2019s airline group announced in April it would cancel 20,000 flights over the following six months to save fuel.<\/p>\n
Iran continues to have a stranglehold on tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz, leading to a surge in oil prices and concerns of jet fuel shortages.<\/p>\n
But on Sunday, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said summer holiday plans will not face major disruption because of the latter.<\/p>\n
She revealed that more fuel has been imported from America, while refineries have upped their production.<\/p>\n
The Government has also introduced a temporary rule change allowing airlines to group passengers from different flights together on to fewer planes to save fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 120 flights from the UK this month have been cancelled, new figures show, as jet fuel prices…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1092,972,13089,13088,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-30099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-fuel-prices","9":"tag-fuel-shortages","10":"tag-outbound-flights","11":"tag-performance-flights","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116528165853726792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}