{"id":548210,"date":"2026-04-24T12:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548210\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:02:19","slug":"3-scenarios-for-europes-summer-travel-season-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/548210\/","title":{"rendered":"3 scenarios for Europe\u2019s summer travel season \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBut if this continues for a couple of more weeks, it won’t be a matter of price; it will be a matter of supply,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bad: Partial reopening, uneven supply<\/p>\n

The most likely outcome, according to many experts, is a partial resolution of the conflict by early summer, with shipping resuming in fits and starts.<\/p>\n

In such a scenario, jet fuel prices would remain high and supply would be uncertain, meaning \u201cweak-performing flights [could be] cancelled, and some airports [could face] periodic fuel constraints,\u201d Deleau wrote in an analysis.<\/p>\n

\"\"International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol speaks at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue conference in Berlin on April 22, 2026. | John MacDougall\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Long-haul leisure flights and less popular regional routes would most likely be first on the chopping bloc, the document said.<\/p>\n

Because of high ticket prices, “people are starting to think about driving to their holidays or … the staycation might be back,” said Andrew Charlton, managing director of the Aviation Advocacy consultancy.<\/p>\n

Under such a scenario, he said airlines may cut more short regional flights, but more profitable longer routes served by fewer airlines would likely be safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut if this continues for a couple of more weeks, it won’t be a matter of price; it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5138,2121,188781,2410,84,1294,1344,158660,819,3360,145,585,2987,1675,8737,557,56,54,55,163220],"class_list":{"0":"post-548210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-airlines","9":"tag-airports","10":"tag-apostolos-tzitzikostas","11":"tag-aviation","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-energy","15":"tag-fatih-birol","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-fuels","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-iran","20":"tag-oil","21":"tag-shipping","22":"tag-sustainable-aviation","23":"tag-transport","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-unitedkingdom","27":"tag-war-in-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548210","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=548210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}