{"id":408348,"date":"2026-04-18T23:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/eu-us-fuel-crisis-flight-cancellations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:41:45","slug":"42-days-to-empty-eu-scrambles-for-us-fuel-as-mass-flight-cancellations-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=408348","title":{"rendered":"42 Days To Empty: EU Scrambles For US Fuel As Mass Flight Cancellations Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"206102\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/european-union\/\"  >European Union<\/a><\/span> (EU) looks to diversify its fuel import sources, as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East has left the region with depleting jet fuel reserves. Because half the fuel imported to the EU originates from the Middle East, countries in the region are now looking to increase their fuel imports from the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> and Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to fuel supply from the Middle East being disrupted, the EU is now turning to countries such as the US and Nigeria to increase jet fuel imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19759,396,120,4370,10373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-flight-cancelation","category-fuel-crisis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408349,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408348\/revisions\/408349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}