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Flight price rises due to ‘foolish leaders’ starting wars, Virgin’s Branson says
Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson has blamed flight price rises on "foolish leaders" starting wars, in a thinly veiled reference to the US-Israel conflict with Iran.
The European benchmark jet fuel price had been hovering around $800 (£590) a tonne, but spiked following the outbreak of the war in Iran, reaching a peak of over $1,800 in April.
Virgin Atlantic's chief executive, Corneel Koster, told the BBC that for "this level of fuel price" fuel surcharges were "absolutely required", adding that it's "hard to be optimistic at this moment about the situation in the Middle East".
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