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News & Current Events May 14, 2026 at 8:24 AM

Warning higher Europe air fares 'inevitable' due to Iran war

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Warning higher Europe air fares 'inevitable' due to Iran war
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Warning higher Europe air fares 'inevitable' due to Iran war
Flying by air will get more expensive as oil prices remain high, says international industry body boss.
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mido_sama May 14, 2026 +110
This winter will be brutal.
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Conan-Da-Barbarian May 14, 2026 +38
Winter is coming
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babu595 May 14, 2026 +10
As is customary every year.
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Conan-Da-Barbarian May 14, 2026
Thanks global warming for nothing
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moritsunee May 14, 2026 +180
And they're never coming back down even if Hormuz were to open tomorrow lol
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celix24 May 14, 2026 +55
Yay capitalism!
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Voluptulouis May 14, 2026 +22
Yeah! F*** you, everyone that's not rich!
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qtx May 14, 2026 +7
They will. Especially in Europe where airfares are a lot cheaper. People fly *because* it's so c****, if they keep the prices high they will just use the train or car instead which will bankrupt the airlines.
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lammy82 May 14, 2026 +12
This is right. Air travel is insanely competitive across Europe. As soon as the cost to fuel the plane comes down, the budget airlines will slash their prices to fill their planes. Why wouldn’t they? They’re not in the business of flying empty seats about.
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cloud_t May 14, 2026 -1
Price sensitivity shenanigans amid social crises should be criminalized.
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Mountsorrel May 14, 2026 +130
This is usually what we hear before the companies later announce record profits. BP’s profits have already doubled since the Iran war started: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2eveyvgn9no?app-referrer=deep-link It would be good if the BBC could look into sectors where consumer prices rise “due to war” (Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, etc) and then announce insane profit increases…
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cteno4 May 14, 2026 +5
It’s not a surprise that an oil company’s profits increase when oil prices go up.
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killerboy_belgium May 14, 2026 +33
Actually it should be a surprise because there costs should be going up to justify price increase if there profit is going it means there cost did not go up Now revenue is logical
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kinglallak May 14, 2026 +12
? This is only true if BP has to buy crude on the open market. BP’s cost of drilling a barrel of crude out of the ground hasn’t changed.
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cteno4 May 14, 2026 +13
Their costs don’t go up, just the price of oil. Nothing has changed on the production side. It’s logical for their profits to go up. If you farm carrots, and suddenly everybody wants your carrots more, your profits will go up.
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qtx May 14, 2026 +1
Yes, that's economics.. That's how it's supposed to work. Come on people, they teach you this in high school. If there is a scarcity of a product the prices go up. People still need that product so the company that sells it earns more money.
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Mountsorrel May 14, 2026 +3
The *amount of profit* made is a choice. There are plenty of examples out there (Arizona Iced Tea, Costco hotdogs, whatever) where the price *to the consumer* doesn’t change even though the cost *to the producer* has increased. Profitability goes down. The producer has a choice to absorb rising costs or pass them on to the consumer, or in this case pass them on to the consumers and make even more profit as a base percentage of unit cost.
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steathrazor May 14, 2026 +39
And that orange moron doesn't care that the world will feel this for years The people who will suffer the most? The poor those that are on the edge of surviving. All they care about is Daddy. Israel told him to attack And tells orange man to pound harder
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enverest May 14, 2026 -60
Isn't it Iran who blocked the strait of Hormuz?
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johnk419 May 14, 2026 +40
Yeah as a response to Trump bombing the f*** out of them?
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No-One2123 May 14, 2026
Only because Iran killed 30000 protestors
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zakabog May 14, 2026 +3
...you think Trump cares about Iranian protestor lives?
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No-One2123 May 14, 2026
It doesn't matter whether or not Trump actually cares. The point is that Iran needs to go down no matter what.
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zakabog May 14, 2026
> It doesn't matter whether or not Trump actually cares. It does if you are claiming that's his justification for this stupidity.
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enverest May 14, 2026 -46
So instead of responding to Trump, Iran responds to civilian ships?
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Jaxxlack May 14, 2026 +21
Western ships... Context matters... I don't like it ...but when you represent..
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PigFarmer1 May 14, 2026 +9
You should probably avoid "current events" if you're in a trivia contest. Just sayin'... lol
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Nearby-Key8834 May 14, 2026 +21
Bad Zionist bot.
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pchlster May 14, 2026 +1
Yeah, many a business will close their doors if maniacs start shooting at them? Them closing down the Strait was the most predictable thing that could have happened. All because Bibi gave marching orders to King Orange.
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Cheap_Atmosphere3276 May 14, 2026 +43
Airlines will use literally any excuse to raise fares, and then mysteriously forget to lower them when the crisis passes.
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IlVeroStronzo May 14, 2026 +4
Businesses will use literally any excuse to raise their prices
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TheoTheodor May 14, 2026 -7
To be fair air fares are actually insanely c**** (at least in Europe) and I can’t think of a single airline with anything that’d be considered ‘great’ profitability. The oil and gas companies on the other hand…
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Boring-Research410 May 14, 2026 +5
Essential products and services....water service, medical services, electricity, fuel a.s oils should all be nationalized.
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PigFarmer1 May 14, 2026 +1
They should all be regulated.
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doninside May 14, 2026 +12
thank you orange buffoon
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Nearby-Key8834 May 14, 2026 +5
Well now I'll have to cancel the European vacation I didn't have enough money or PTO for anyway.
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OverSoft May 14, 2026 +3
And yet I can still book a return trip from the Netherlands to Italy at the end of July for less than €120.
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aurorasearching May 14, 2026 +6
Other side of the Atlantic, but a round trip from Philadelphia to Dallas was over $900 the other day.
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Voluptulouis May 14, 2026
Ew, Texas.
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strzeka May 14, 2026 -14
Stay home or take the train.
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opisska May 14, 2026 +9
It would take a lot of increase for planes to be more expensive than the train for long-distance travel in Europe.
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strzeka May 14, 2026
Agreed. Rail transport can be expensive. But it runs on electricity. Europlanes aren't going anywhere if kerosene runs out.
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SemiHemiDemiDumb May 14, 2026 +3
Genuine question, how much of European energy generated by oil?
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opisska May 14, 2026 +1
Electricity? Very little - even fossil plants use mainly coal and gas. But obviously a lot of energy generated is not electricity but direct use of oil products in ICE vehicles.
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jinglejanglemyheels May 14, 2026 +1
You can check the distribution of technologies in the different zones [here](https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes)
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opisska May 14, 2026 +2
The problem is that I don't believe that long-distance trains even could replace flights if we just stopped flights right now - the infrastructure is lacking. Also people tend to really overestimate how many people a train transports compared to a plane - the current planes are really efficiently packed, with around 200 passengers, which is maybe 3 carriages of a typical long-distance train. And the trakcs are at capacity inany places (they surely are in Czechia and Germany).
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aimwf May 14, 2026 +4
most peoples cannot afford to take the train, but still wanna see family or go take vacations, train is stupidly expensive for long distance.
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roox911 May 14, 2026 +1
Yeah! Poor people don't need to travel or go on vacay! /s
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