Should you worry about flights being cancelled and jet fuel shortages?
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4.4 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
With millions of seats being cut from flights worldwide, it's safe to say many Britons may be worried about future travel plans - or are being put off booking holidays altogether.
The Middle East conflict has pushed up the price of jet fuel and airlines are having to plan ahead to try and ensure as little disruption as possible.
But what can you do if you end up getting swept up in cancellations or delays? Helen Crane, Georgie Frost and Lee Boyce discuss.
Also this week, Helen steps in to help a man finally get a £1,100 refund after his flight was cancelled in the pandemic... SIX years ago.
The high street is in crisis, with TG Jones the next retailer to axe shops and staff. What's gone wrong? And it's no secret banks have closed branches at rapid pace - with banking hubs celebrating their fifth birthday, are they filling the gap well?
More homeowners are selling off chunks of their garden. But what are the dangers and is it a good idea?
And finally, six watches to invest in that experts say will become classics.
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Hosts: Georgie Frost, Simon Lambert, Lee Boyce, Helen Crane
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to This Is Money podcast sponsored by Trading 212. |
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| 0:15.3 | I'm Georgie Froston. |
| 0:16.2 | Joining me and Lee Boyce is Helen Crane. |
| 0:18.5 | And coming up, another flight win for our Helen, this time for a person |
| 0:22.3 | who had been waiting six years for a refund from Emirates after a pandemic cancellation. |
| 0:28.2 | But we can't all have Crane on our case for us, so Helen would tell us everything we need to know about flight cancellations and our rights. |
| 0:35.8 | Also today, more on our high streets. Did anyone actually |
| 0:39.1 | think the change from W.H Smith to T.G. Jones was going to be a good one. Well, now hundreds of |
| 0:44.0 | jobs are at risk as TG Jones plans to axe 150 stores. Meanwhile, as more branches disappear from |
| 0:50.1 | our towns, could banking hubs replace them in yours? Plus, why are people selling off |
| 0:55.5 | chunks of their garden and the six watches to invest in that experts say will become classics? |
| 1:01.6 | Don't forget your up to date with all the latest breaking money news, just go to this ismoney.com. |
| 1:05.2 | UK or download the app. But first, summer travel plans continue to be plunged into chaos. In the past |
| 1:12.7 | couple of weeks, airlines have cut more than two million seats from their May schedules amid |
| 1:17.5 | growing fears of a fuel shortage, and they've done reduced schedules in anticipation of further |
| 1:22.9 | trouble to come. So we recently spoke about Helen helping to get a refund for a poor couple who needs to get |
| 1:30.1 | back to Islamabad after sadly their son died. Well, she's got another victory as well. But Helen, |
| 1:36.4 | as I said earlier, she cannot do it all. So we have a what you need to know cheat sheet in case your |
| 1:42.0 | flight is cancelled. But first, Helen, |
| 1:49.8 | just keep us up to date. What is the latest situation for holidays and flights? Is it getting worse, |
| 1:56.0 | sort of staying the same? Getting any better? I think it depends on the situation you're in. So obviously when this conflict first kicked off, it mostly affected people who were travelling on flights through the Middle East or were going to the Middle East. |
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