Europe Weeks Away From Jet-Fuel Shortage, Airport Group Says

Passenger aircraft at Munich International Airport, Germany.

Photographer: Michaela Stache/Bloomberg

Europe faces a systemic jet-fuel shortage in three weeks’ time if the Strait of Hormuz remains restricted until then, a regional airport trade association warns.

A fuel crunch would trigger severe disruptions to airports and airlines, significantly hurting the continent’s economy, ACI Europe wrote in a letter Thursday to two European Union commissioners.