Tarom assures that there is no risk of flight cancellations due to the lack of kerosene. The company says it has the necessary quantities secured
TAROM airline announced on Friday that it has secured sufficient stocks of kerosene and that operational activity will not be affected, in the context of fears related to a possible shortage of fuel amid tensions in the Middle East.
Asia in particular, but also Europe to a lesser extent, are two continents that depend heavily on Middle Eastern oil and refineries for supply. Europe normally imports half of its kerosene from the Gulf countries. Thus, the risk of a kerosene shortage is increasing day by day due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, without knowing exactly when and where aviation will run out of tanks
“The announcement of the Airports Council International (ACI) Europe from the beginning of April and that of the International Energy Agency (IEA) this week points to a real problem of the air transport industry, at the level of the continent. In Romania we do not have a kerosene supply crisis, the impact felt at the industry level comes from the volatility of the oil price in the medium and long term”, the airline said in a press release, according to News.ro.
TAROM also specifies that the scenarios taken into account do not foresee flight cancellations over the next 90 days due to fuel shortages.
“The National Air Transport Company has secured the necessary quantities of kerosene, reconfirmed with its suppliers and will continue to offer safe, professionally coordinated flights under normal conditions”, TAROM also transmitted.
Europe still has “about six weeks worth of jet fuel”, says IEA chief
Europe has “probably six weeks or so of jet fuel,” the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain disrupted by the Iran war.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol presented a worrying picture of the global repercussions of what he called “the biggest energy crisis we have ever faced”, resulting from the disruption of oil, gas and other vital supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.
“This is a very difficult situation and it will have major implications for the global economy. And the longer this continues, the worse it will be for global economic growth and inflation,” he said.
The impact will be “an increase in (gasoline) prices, gas prices and electricity prices,” Birol added.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr warned on Tuesday that grounding aircraft “may be inevitable” as the fuel crisis hits major airports.
A problem is also the high costs, Marius Popescu, the president of the Association of Romanian Airlines – Carpathia, citing a “pecuniary support”.
“The price of a ton of kerosene in Otopeni before this situation was 800 euros, now it is 1,900 euros. From the base airport, Otopeni, we are already filling the tanks more with kerosene (…) because we do not have a certainty that we will find kerosene in time at the destination airport”, he said at the beginning of this week, according to TVR Info.
