<div id="readability-page-1">  <p><time datetime="2026-05-08T07:29:47+01:00">    Friday 08 May 2026 7:29 am  </time></p>         <div>                                                                                                                 Add as a preferred        source on Google                        </div>    <figure>    <div>       </div> <img width="742" height="495" src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://www.cityam.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2111-british-airways.jpeg/query-dz03NDI?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://www.cityam.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2111-british-airways.jpeg/query-dz03NDI"/>  <figcaption>British Airways owner has been IAG has been rocked by events in the Middle East</figcaption> </figure> <p>British Airways owner IAG has played down fears of a jet fuel shortage forcing it to cancel flights this summer but warned investors to expect lower earnings as a result of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.</p><p>The London-listed carrier said the pan-regional war that has dragged into its third month will have a “substantial impact throughout the rest of the year” as kerosene prices that are now double their pre-war-time prices filter into the market.</p><p>But 70 per cent of its jet fuel is hedged at a price set before the US’s initial strikes on Iran until the end of the year, which it said has insulated the business from the shorter term impacts of supply shock.</p><h2 id="h-iag-boss-no-issues-with-availability">IAG boss: No issues with availability</h2><p>Profit at the aviation group, which also owns the likes of Aer Lingus and Veuling, jumped by more than 77 per cent over the first three months of 2026, the update said, despite the war affecting the last last 30 days of the reporting period. IAG attributed the large rise to revenue growth and the “limited impact on cost from the Middle EAst conflict”.</p><p>Luis Gallego, chief executive of IAG said the group saw “no issues with fuel availability” but that the higher input costs would inevitably eat into the companies full-year profit expectations. Instead, he said the issue the airline faced was more about fuel prices than supply.</p><p>“Whilst the impact of the higher fuel price will inevitably lead to lower profit this year than we originally anticipated, we are confident in our business model and strategy, which has made us one of the best-performing airline groups in the world, and which gives us the opportunity to prove our resilience,” he said.</p><p>The carrier has already been forced to push on much of the higher jet fuel prices raise its ticket prices onto consumers, and raised the cost of its average ticket. And in its update on Friday, the group</p> </div>

英国国际航空集团

国际联合航空集团

<p>国际航空集团（IAG），英国国际航空的母公司，已淡化对中东冲突导致的航空燃料短缺的担忧，但警告称由于煤油价格上涨，盈利将下降。尽管 2026 年第一季度利润增长了 77%，IAG 首席执行官路易斯·加列戈表示，虽然燃料供应不是问题，但更高的价格将影响全年利润。该航空公司已提高票价以抵消增加的燃料成本，并对其商业模式和韧性保持信心</p>

IAG：英国航空公司母公司对航空燃油短缺的担忧进行了淡化处理