{"id":69529,"date":"2026-04-16T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/easyjet-stock-falls-as-middle-east-conflict-fuel-costs-hit-bookings\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:05:56","slug":"easyjet-stock-falls-as-middle-east-conflict-fuel-costs-hit-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/easyjet-stock-falls-as-middle-east-conflict-fuel-costs-hit-bookings\/","title":{"rendered":"EasyJet stock falls as Middle East conflict, fuel costs hit bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\">easyjet<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>Stocks fell Thursday after warnings that the Iran war and higher fuel prices were hurting customer bookings.  <\/p>\n<p>EasyJet said it had incurred approximately \u00a325 million ($34 million) in additional fuel costs due to the US-Iran war and expected the airline&#8217;s costs to remain linked to volatile fuel prices in the coming months. <\/p>\n<p>Shares fell as much as 8.7% before paring losses to 3.2% in previous trading.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier said it expected to report a pre-tax loss of between \u00a3540 million and \u00a3560 million ($732.4 million and $759.6 million) in the first half of 2026. The company is due to report its full first half results on May 21.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is a breaking news story. Please refresh for updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ArticleBody-googlePreferredSourceContainer\" data-module=\"GooglePreferredSource\" data-id=\"RegularArticle-GooglePreferredSource-5\">Choose CNBC as your favorite source on Google and never miss a moment of the most trusted name in business news.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>easyjetStocks fell Thursday after warnings that the Iran war and higher fuel prices were hurting customer bookings. EasyJet said it had incurred approximately \u00a325 million ($34 million) in additional fuel costs due to the US-Iran war and expected the airline&#8217;s costs to remain linked to volatile fuel prices in the coming months. Shares fell as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4515,1805,3801,1012,16796,1202,1226,1539,1011,1265],"class_list":{"0":"post-69529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-bookings","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-costs","11":"tag-east","12":"tag-easyjet","13":"tag-falls","14":"tag-fuel","15":"tag-hit","16":"tag-middle","17":"tag-stock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69532,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69529\/revisions\/69532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}