A wave of canceled flights in May? Ryanair boss warns

Michael O’Leary, the head of Ryanair, warns that jet fuel supplies may be disrupted in Mayif the conflict in the Middle East continues. – Fuel suppliers constantly monitor the market. We do not expect any disruptions until early May, but if the war continues there is a risk of supply disruptions in Europe in May and June. We hope that the war will end sooner and the supply risks will be eliminated, he said in an interview with Sky News.

May flights at risk? The head of Ryanair spoke out

– We believe that there is a reasonable risk, at a low level, that approximately 10-25 percent our deliveries may be at risk in May and Juneso like everyone else in this industry we hope this war ends sooner rather than later,” Michael O’Leary continued.

He added that if the war ends “by April and the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, the supply risk will be virtually zero.” At the same time, the head of Ryanair stressed that he did not expect any flights to be canceled, as happened with the competition.

Conflict in the Middle East. Trump’s new statement caused a storm

In late February 2026, a massive campaign of air attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran began. The aim of the activities is to eliminate the infrastructure of Iran’s nuclear program, missile arsenal and military potential. Tehran immediately began retaliatory actions in the form of missile and drone attacks on American bases in the region and military and civilian targets in Israel and the Persian Gulf countries.

On Wednesday, April 1, Donald Trump wrote that the “president of the new Iranian regime” asked the United States for a ceasefire. The US president’s position was met with a sharp reaction from the spokesman of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who said: said that Trump’s statement was false.