{"id":201394,"date":"2026-04-18T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201394\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:05:08","slug":"air-canada-will-suspend-flights-to-jfk-for-nearly-5-months-as-jet-fuel-costs-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201394\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport over the summer as the war with Iran<\/a> creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canada’s flag carrier said Friday that service from Toronto and Montreal to JFK will cease June 1 and resume Oct. 25. Service to the New York metropolitan area’s other major airports \u2014 LaGuardia and Newark Liberty \u2014 will continue. Air Canada offers 34 flights a day to those two airports from six Canadian cities.<\/p>\n

Air Canada says it will reach out to customers who are impacted by the suspension with alternate travel options.<\/p>\n

“As jet fuel prices have doubled since the start of the Iran conflict and some lower profitability routes and flights are no longer economic, and we are making schedule adjustments accordingly,” a spokesman for the Montreal-based carrier said Friday.<\/p>\n

The average price for a gallon of jet fuel reached $4.32 on Thursday, up from $2.50 the day before the war in Iran broke out, according to Argus Media.<\/p>\n

Oil prices dropped more than 10%<\/a> Friday, after Iran said the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> is open again for commercial tankers carrying oil from the Persian Gulf to customers worldwide.<\/p>\n

Fuel<\/a>\u00a0and labor costs are typically the largest annual expenses for airlines. Delta Air said this month that the tab for higher fuel would add $2 billion to its second-quarter costs. Airlines including Delta<\/a>, JetBlue and United Airlines<\/a> are raising bag fees to offset skyrocketing fuel costs. Other airlines, including Lufthansa and KLM, have had to scale back service as jet fuel costs render some routes unprofitable.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive Associated Press interview Thursday,\u00a0International Energy Agency Director Fatih Birol<\/a>\u00a0said Europe has “maybe six weeks” of remaining jet fuel supplies and said the global economy faces its “largest energy crisis.”<\/p>\n

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