{"id":1779,"date":"2026-04-21T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:53:00","slug":"apostolos-tzitzikostas-flight-cancellations-are-not-linked-to-fuel-shortages-but-to-high-fuel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Apostolos Tzitzikostas: Flight cancellations are not linked to fuel shortages, but to high fuel prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flight cancellations <\/b>are not linked to <b>problems <\/b>in the supply of <b>fuel <\/b>flight fuel, but to their high prices.<\/p>\n<p>This was made clear today by <b>Brussels<\/b>, the Transport Commissioner, <b>Apostolos Tzitzikostas,<\/b> at a press conference shortly after the conclusion of the teleconference of<b>EU transport ministers<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the<b>flight cancellations<\/b> of some European airlines, Ap. Tzitzikostas replied that these so far &#8220;are not due to a <b>shortage<\/b> of aircraft fuel supply, but are related to the very high price of fuel which has <b>over doubled<\/b>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>As he explained, this development has led many airlines to <b>reduce<\/b> or even discontinue some routes that are no longer <b>financially viable<\/b>. &#8220;Even routes that were marginally at the point of profitability are now no longer viable,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight cancellations are not linked to problems in the availability of aviation fuel, but to high prices.This was made clear today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}