Looming Jet Fuel Shortages?

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Fuel stocks held as of 28/04/26

Previous posts:
#45 Tuesday 10/3/26
#165 for 31/3/26
#214 for 07/04/26
#307 for 14/4/26
#351 for 21/4/26


The change in fuel stocks since 10/3/26:
Petrol increase by 223 ML
Jet Fuel reduce by 18 ML
Diesel increase by 287 ML

1 ML Jet fuel = 800 Tonnes (metric) 780 Tons (imperial)

737-800 SYD-MEL maybe uses 4.5 Tonnes??
A380 SIN -LHR maybe 160 Tonnes??



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They've been lobbying for that for some time so not surprising.

This is mostly about slots at airports like LHR, it will allow BA to cancel their "slot sitting" flights to save fuel (usually called "slot hoarding" in Australia, but known as "slot sitting" in the UK).

BA are notorious for it, often flying mostly empty planes in and out of Heathrow to prevent other airlines from taking their coveted Heathrow slots. Or using 2 smaller aircraft on 2 similarly timed departures, instead of 1 larger one, to use more slots.

Some of them are quite obvious, for example near identical departures to the same destination that are scheduled 5 minutes apart.
 

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