The US-Israel war with Iran has jet fuel prices taking flight, consequently lifting airlines’ operating costs and hitting bottom lines with ear-shattering sonic booms. Airline CFOs and their C-suite partners have addressed this turbulence head-on in recent earnings calls by acknowledging the impacts of rising fuel costs and laying out how they’re addressing them.
“While we entered 2026 with strong momentum, geopolitical events have quickly disrupted that trajectory, driving an acute run-up in fuel prices that has put pressure on the entire industry,” Shane Tackett, CFO of Alaska Airlines, said on an April 21 earnings call.
The jet-fuel crisis is a painfully predictable result of disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, a key trade corridor through which approximately a quarter of the…
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