{"id":490793,"date":"2022-05-11T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=490793"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T03:37:23","slug":"african-airlines-join-forces-to-stave-off-potential-jet-fuel-price-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/african-airlines-join-forces-to-stave-off-potential-jet-fuel-price-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"African airlines join forces to stave off potential jet-fuel price crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African airlines are clubbing together to negotiate better prices and a steady flow of jet fuel, a move to help stave off a potential crisis caused by supply issues and soaring costs.<\/p>\n<p>A committee has been formed &#8212; including major carriers such as South African Airways and Kenya Airways &#8212; to secure deliveries for 12 months starting in July, African Airlines Association Secretary-General Abderahmane Berthe said during a briefing in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in the last round of negotiations, the process will end in June,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The talks started even before a weekend of turmoil in Nigeria, Africa\u2019s most populous country, where airlines threatened to stop flying until further notice in response to surging fuel prices following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African airlines are clubbing together to negotiate better prices and a steady flow of jet fuel, a move to help stave off a potential crisis caused by supply issues and soaring costs. A committee has been formed &#8212; including major carriers such as South African Airways and Kenya Airways &#8212; to secure deliveries for 12 months starting in July, African Airlines Association Secretary-General Abderahmane Berthe said during a briefing in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. \u201cWe are in the last round of negotiations, the process will end in June,\u201d he said. The talks started even before a weekend of turmoil in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}