{"id":544603,"date":"2026-04-22T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:29:08","slug":"lufthansa-cuts-20000-summer-flights-as-fuel-prices-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/544603\/","title":{"rendered":"Lufthansa cuts 20,000 summer flights as fuel prices surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gulf is a major source of aviation fuel, accounting for about 50% of Europe’s imports. The bulk of it comes through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed in response to US and Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n

The increase in jet fuel prices reflects the role Middle Eastern refineries play in supplies. The Al-Zour refinery in Kuwait alone provides roughly 10% of Europe’s jet fuel imports, according to Energy Intelligence.<\/p>\n

The International Energy Agency warned last week that Europe could run out of jet fuel in weeks<\/a>, though the UK government and airlines say they are not seeing a disruption in supply.<\/p>\n

Lufthansa said on Tuesday it was cutting down its European network, but that passengers will “continue to have access to the global route network, particularly long-haul connections”.<\/p>\n

“However, due to the increase in jet fuel prices, this will be achieved significantly more efficiently than before.”<\/p>\n

It said this would save “approximately 40,000 metric tons of jet fuel”.<\/p>\n

The announcement on Tuesday comes after the firm said last week it was speeding up the permanent closure of its European flight offering CityLine.<\/p>\n

It also said at the time it was retiring the programme’s 27 aircraft, partly due to “significantly increased kerosene prices”, but also because of “additional burdens from labor disputes”. <\/p>\n

Lufthansa said “the first 120” of these flight cuts were implemented on Tuesday. Routes affected include those from Frankfurt to Poland and Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gulf is a major source of aviation fuel, accounting for about 50% of Europe’s imports. The bulk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-544603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}