Brent crude futures price climbed as high as $139 intraday on March 7. In the past month, spot fuel prices have surged 26% to $116 per barrel of Brent crude as of Thursday. ban of Russian oil imports, announced March 8, a move the United Kingdom is likely to follow in coming months. The sudden circuity following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine comes just as airlines are slammed by another aspect of the war: A spike in jet fuel prices owing to the geopolitical turbulence and the U.S. This additional fuel use, if it persists, could further complicate airlines’ goal of achieving zero net carbon emissions by 2050, an ambitious target the International Air Transport Association adopted in October. 787-9 on the route, based on current jet fuel prices. needs for its London to Tokyo routing via Canada and Alaska runs over $20,000 in extra fuel for the Boeing Co.
Likewise, the extra 4.5 hours Japan Airlines Co. At the March 10 settlement price of $3.20 per gallon in Europe, based on Platt’s data, an extra three hours would add more than $17,000 in additional fuel expense. One of the world’s longest flights, Qantas Airways Ltd.’s Sydney-Darwin-London service, flies through the Middle East and southern Europe instead of traversing China and Russia, adding 60 minutes to flights already pushing 17 hours long, the company said last month.Īll those extra miles mean more fuel burn.Īn Airbus SE A350-900, which Finnair uses for longer routes, consumes roughly 1,830 gallons of fuel per hour at a typical cruise speed, according to data compiled by Robert Mann, an aviation analyst in Long Island, New York. But the return flight to Chicago is 17 hours, two hours longer than using Russian airspace, according to data from tracking service FlightAware. United is routing its Newark-Delhi flights over Saudi Arabia and its Chicago-Delhi flight over Turkey, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan. Trips from San Francisco to Delhi and Newark, New Jersey to Mumbai wouldn’t work without re-fueling or heavily restricting the amount of cargo and passengers. canceled two of its four flights to India after deciding to end Russian overflights on March 1. Read more: Flight Routes Get Thrown Into Chaos With Russian Airspace Closed The less-direct routings add as much as three hours on most Europe-Asia routes. 24 invasion of Ukraine, at least 21 airlines have rerouted flights to avoid either Russian airspace or the western portion of Ukraine, according to tracking firm FlightRadar24. “We’ve had to rethink all our Asian services after the ban on using Russian airspace,” said spokeswoman Paivyt Tallqvist, noting variables like prevailing winds determine if the company routes planes north or south of Russia. Read more: Russia Bans Airlines From 36 Countries From Using Its Airspace The Nordic carrier - which until recently touted itself as offering the shortest routes from Europe to Asia - scrapped its Northeast Asian flights and re-routed trips to Southeast Asia after being banished from Russian airspace. “The impact of these is so great, that at this stage we are unfortunately not able to offer passenger connections to all of our Asian destinations,” Perttu Jolma, vice-president of Finnair’s traffic planning team, wrote in a March 7 company blog. The diversions also are blowing a big hole in airlines’ commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And, of course, there’s the extra time customers will spend in transit. Airlines may face additional maintenance costs for heavier use of their long-haul jets and some new overflight fees from countries they may not have traversed previously. The economic burden of those end-runs is measured in additional jet fuel burn, extended duty times, and the potential for more crews being required on some longer flights.
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