Italy Travel Update: Thoughts on Oil Crisis
Untold Italy travel podcast
Katy Clarke
4.7 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Summary: Fuel prices have increased in Italy and some short haul and low cost airlines are consolidating flight departures to manage jet fuel supplies. Travel through the Middle East remains severely disrupted. Our sympathies to those of you who have had to delay/cancel trips planned in the coming months.
Otherwise, it is shaping up to be a busy month in Italy this May.
We continue to monitor the situation regularly and will keep listeners updated as and when material changes occur.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I want to address the elephant in the room right now because I know some people |
| 0:05.6 | are concerned about long distance travel to Italy during this current oil crisis and the rest of |
| 0:11.2 | the year. I'm Katie, the founder of Untold Italy, and we help people find their own version of |
| 0:17.0 | Italy through our podcast at Services and Tours. |
| 0:24.7 | Now straight up, things look a little bleak if things don't change soon. |
| 0:29.5 | But like most of us, we do not know what is going to happen in the next few weeks and months. But we've been on this roller coaster before during COVID and what we know is this. |
| 0:35.4 | Everyone has their own definition of risk when it comes to travel |
| 0:38.6 | in these kind of crazy times and we can only work with the information that we have to hand. |
| 0:45.4 | We do see what's going on and we're actively talking about it with our partners, |
| 0:49.6 | suppliers and our clients and at this point on the 29th of April, 2026, when I am recording this, |
| 0:56.3 | the main things that we see are that fuel prices are increasing in Italy and that airlines |
| 1:01.7 | in some European destinations are consolidating their short haul and low-cost flight departures |
| 1:07.2 | within Europe to manage jet fuel supplies. If you're coming or plan to come to Italy |
| 1:12.8 | via the Middle East, obviously the impact is much greater and in fact this has impacted my own |
| 1:18.5 | travels, which I have moved to later in the year. Now if you're in this situation, the best thing |
| 1:24.4 | to do is to contact your airline and rebook via Asia, although I do appreciate |
| 1:28.7 | that this can be very costly. Or you might be like my aunt who is traveling through Dubai |
| 1:34.1 | in the coming days and is happy to do so. Like I said, everyone has their own risk profile |
| 1:39.4 | and ability to wait things out. But other than that, it's very much business as usual in Italy and the peak |
| 1:45.7 | season is just about to get into full swing. So going forward, what we're going to do here at Untold |
| 1:52.7 | Italy is we're going to communicate very clearly as and when things do change and if there is a definite |
| 1:58.7 | shift in policies and prices on the ground. And just like in the |
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