{"id":809720,"date":"2026-03-07T08:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/809720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:39:26","slug":"jet-fuel-prices-hit-28-month-high-as-iran-war-squeezes-eu-airlines-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/809720\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet fuel prices hit 28-month high as Iran war squeezes EU airlines \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The original recommendation \u2014 issued on Feb. 28 when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran \u2014 is now valid until March 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll-altitude capable air-defence systems, cruise and ballistic missiles and the use of air assets \u2026 make the entire affected airspace vulnerable to spill-over risks, misidentification, miscalculation and failure of interception procedures,\u201d the EASA bulletin said.<\/p>\n

That recommendation leaves only a very narrow path for many airlines to fly between Europe and Asia \u2014 forcing them along Turkey’s northern Black Sea coast, then over Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea. European carriers can’t fly over war-torn Ukraine and they’ve also been barred from Russian airspace since Moscow invaded Ukraine four years ago.<\/p>\n

However, Turkish, Chinese and other Asian competitors can still overfly<\/a> Russia, creating growing competition problems for EU carriers.<\/p>\n

The Ukraine war closures already forced airline groups such as Lufthansa and Air France-KLM to reroute their long-haul flights to and from Asia \u2014 increasing fuel and staffing costs.<\/p>\n

Now, even that narrow passage across Azerbaijan is at risk after the country was reportedly<\/a> targeted by a drone strike near the Iranian border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The original recommendation \u2014 issued on Feb. 28 when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran \u2014 is now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[18991,18992,1306,7503,2595,2000,299,5187,39,31683,774,837,2598,2661,332,5549,6506,657,49,231032,335],"class_list":["post-809720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-airlines","tag-airspace","tag-aviation","tag-azerbaijan","tag-drones","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-fuels","tag-ilham-aliyev","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-missiles","tag-oil","tag-russia","tag-safety","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war-in-iran","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116186996168733487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}