Alistair Bunkall

You've got lovely sunshine and you can head down the Amalfi Coast or you can go to Tuscany or to Sicily.

But, you know, I think the point they were making was was a serious one.

Look upon it possibly, and I think maybe they're sort of getting ahead of themselves slightly, but look upon it as being like the COVID days where travel might be restricted, certainly more expensive.

Perhaps flights might even be cancelled, you know, and give some thought to holidaying at home.

Yeah, and again, I think that's Lufthansa getting ahead of the game.

20,000 flights, which... And Lufthansa, for those who don't know, most people will assume it's a German airline, but it's one of the largest airline groups in Europe.

So it includes Austrian, Swiss Airlines, Brussels Airlines, for example.

So, you know, quite a wide range of coverage.

And they've taken the step to cancel 20,000 flights.

Some airlines, I think KLM, have cancelled much, much smaller numbers, but still make cancellations.

Others are...

hiking the prices of their tickets, particularly for long-haul flights to pay for the increased fuel charges.

Incidentally, the EU, again, as a sort of a collective, have been paying around

Yeah, I mean, this is something, well, the measures first.

I mean, it is looking to try and sort of move away from dependency on fossil fuels.

I mean, this is nothing particularly new in the EU to try and promote clean energy.

So heat fuel pumps, solar panels, driving electric cars, for example.

You know, that is a long-term strategy for the EU, both for sort of its green credentials, but also to try and wean itself off dependency on, you know, what before the Ukraine war was Russia in a big part.

Now they have successfully done that to some degree, but, you know, there's still a dependency on the Middle East, there's still a dependency on America.

So to try and make it less dependent when crises like this come along.