March 10 (Reuters) – Qantas Airways said on Tuesday it would hike fares on its international routes \u200cthis week in response to the surge in \u200cjet fuel costs due to the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
The \u200bAustralian flag carrier also said in a statement that it was considering adding capacity on its existing Europe routes in the coming months.<\/p>\n
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has \u200csent oil prices surging, \u2060upending global travel and sparking fears of a deep travel slump and the potential \u2060for the widespread grounding of planes.<\/p>\n
Airfares on Asia-Europe routes have already spiked due to airspace closures and capacity constraints.<\/p>\n
Air \u200bNew Zealand, \u200bQantas’s rival, also announced \u200bearlier in the day \u200cbroad increases to ticket prices, one of the first airlines to do so since the start of the war.<\/p>\n
Qantas said in an emailed statement to Reuters that flights on its European routes were operating as scheduled and \u200cwere more than 90% full \u200bin March, about 15 percentage points \u200babove typical levels \u200bfor this time of year.<\/p>\n
“More customers have \u200calso been choosing to travel \u200bto Europe via \u200bthe United States, other Asian cities, and Johannesburg, connecting through Qantas’ partner airline network,” Qantas said.<\/p>\n
“We are \u200bexploring options \u200cto redeploy capacity into Europe on existing routes \u200bin the coming months.”<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Sameer Manekar in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 10 (Reuters) – Qantas Airways said on Tuesday it would hike fares on its international routes \u200cthis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[163317,122880,158449,163316,42,163315,43,163314,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-331317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australian-flag","tag-capacity-constraints","tag-conflict-in-the-middle-east","tag-european-routes","tag-headlines","tag-international-routes","tag-news","tag-qantas-airways","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}