Nearly three months after it was warned Europe could run out of jet fuel within five to six weeks, travel appears to have its house in order this summer – but if the crisis in the Middle East is prolonged, when might fuel shortages really bite? Gary Noakes reports.
The threat of an immediate fuel crisis in Europe has failed to materialise – but has the threat gone away entirely?
While a jet fuel shortage at Glasgow and Edinburgh airports at the start of June turned out to be false alarm, the fallout from the Middle East crisis means a continuing threat if not of supply difficulties then of spiralling prices.
The Scottish airports’ predicament, which meant some flights had to refuel at Prestwick and Manchester, was due to nothing more than a shortage of tanker drivers as, unlike many UK airports, Glasgow and Edinburgh rely on deliveries by road, not pipeline.
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