{"id":3362,"date":"2026-04-02T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/3362\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:23:55","slug":"ryanair-boss-warns-of-jet-fuel-shortage-because-of-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/3362\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair boss warns of jet fuel shortage because of Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Ryanair boss warns of jet fuel shortage because of Iran war\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V-lFrTmZ2e8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRyanair boss warns of jet fuel shortage because of Iran war<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRyanair boss warns airline may cut one in 10 summer flights unless war ends soon<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with ITV News, chief executive Michael O\u2019Leary said that if the war in Iran doesn\u2019t end \u201cby the end of April\u201d, he expects European airlines to start cutting scheduled flights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 30 days. If it remains closed for 60 or 90 days, then we\u2019re all facing an unknown scenario, and we are certainly looking at maybe having to cancel 5%\u201310% of flights through May, June and July,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Leary explained that airlines won\u2019t be able to choose which routes to cancel &#8211; cuts will depend on which airports suffer fuel shortages.<\/p>\n<p>He said he expects to have only a few days\u2019 notice from jet fuel suppliers, making disruption hard to manage.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, he urged passengers to book summer holidays \u201cas quickly as they can\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryanair boss warns of jet fuel shortage because of Iran war Ryanair boss warns airline may cut one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[6803,6802,6801,6800,6806,6807,1864,6816,6817,6815,6798,6810,6797,6794,6795,4848,380,379,6805,425,6813,6814,31,6804,6811,6812,6818,2291,6799,6808,6809,6796,279,341],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-aeroplane","tag-airplane","tag-airport","tag-british-airways","tag-budget","tag-budget-airline","tag-children","tag-consumer","tag-consumer-news","tag-dad","tag-easyjet","tag-family","tag-flights","tag-holiday","tag-holidays","tag-ireland","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-michael-oleary","tag-money","tag-motherhood","tag-mum","tag-news","tag-oleary","tag-parenthood","tag-parenting","tag-personal-finance","tag-plane","tag-ryanair","tag-school-holiday","tag-school-holidays","tag-summer","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}