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Europe has six weeks of jet fuel left caused by 'dire strait' crisis, IEA chief warns

Last week, the Airports Council International Europe wrote to the European Commission, saying jet fuel shortages could begin at the start of May if tankers do not start passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

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00:02Europe could face a shortage of jet fuel in the coming weeks, said the head of the International Energy Agency,
00:08Fatih Birol, on Thursday, warning of a possible flight consolations soon if all supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.
00:16But the IEA has released oil from this Middle East and from this Hormuz Strait. So they will be at
00:24the forefront. Then it will come to Europe and the Americas. We will see the impact of it in two
00:34big ways.
00:35One is the higher petrol prices, higher gas prices, higher electricity prices. The second one is if it continues like
00:47this, if we cannot...
00:49Last week, the Airports Council International Europe wrote to the European Commission saying shortages of jet fuel could begin at
00:57the beginning of May if tankers do not begin sailing through the Hormuz.
01:00The situation varies considerably across the continent. Austria, Bulgaria and Poland have comfortable stocks. For Britain, Iceland and the Netherlands,
01:10it is the opposite.
01:12France is somewhere in the middle and the impact won't be the same for all airports and airlines.
01:19Airlines for Europe, a trade association that includes Air France, KLM, Lufthansa and Ryanair, has been urging the European Union
01:27to begin providing real-time information on jet fuel stocks at airports.
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