The government has confirmed that the disruption to fuel supplies at Glasgow and Edinburgh airports over the weekend has been resolved and was the result of driver logistics rather than any shortage of jet fuel.
In a statement, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero said: “The logistics issues at Edinburgh & Glasgow airports over the weekend have now been resolved. This was due to driver logistics & is not linked to the conflict in the Middle East or wider supply issues. To be clear, UK airlines are not currently seeing any shortage of jet fuel.”
The logistics issues at Edinburgh & Glasgow airports over the weekend have now been resolved.
This was due to driver logistics & is not linked to the conflict in the Middle East or wider supply issues.
To be clear, UK airlines are not currently seeing any shortage of jet fuel.
— Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (@energygovuk) June 1, 2026
The clarification followed a weekend in which both airports reported that a supplier was working to resolve an issue affecting several airline customers, with carriers taking on fuel elsewhere to keep flying.
TUI services leaving Glasgow were routed through Prestwick to refuel, while some Edinburgh departures bound for Paris and Dubai stopped at Manchester. An overnight delivery eased the situation, and affected airlines resumed normal departures from both airports the following morning.
Neither Glasgow nor Edinburgh is connected to the Exolum pipeline, which supplies Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester, as well as a number of Royal Air Force stations. Jet fuel for the two Scottish airports is instead delivered by road tanker, a method whose reliance on a steady flow of deliveries can leave it more exposed to a haulage interruption than a pipeline-fed site.
So did we achieve net zero at Glasgow?
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Honestly the Media in this country won’t be happy until everything has burnt down.
They just love to invent story’s to feed the British whinging class that looses its s**t at the first tescos that runs low on toilet paper.
I don’t know when the nation changed but god knows how we got through the Blitz.
We need more quality journalism like UKDJ
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suspect the first hear of no aviation fuel is airlines cancelling flights.
Apparently the former Health Minister has stated we should be drilling in the North sea now according to sky news this morning .
Every dipshit in Westminster says we should drill in the North Sea to get some headlines. If there was much left in the North Sea we would have drilled it decades ago. No basin on planet earth has be explored or explored so heavily. There has been no major finds for decades and what ever is still out there will barely move the needle on UK consumption.
Coal Is the answer.
No seriously, we got heaps of the stuff… 300 years worth apparently…. We could “Do a China” and produce EV’s and Solar Panels and and, everything made of plastic.
We wouldn’t have to dig far either.
Coal, that’s the answer.
We can’t build a railway line in England without putting half of it underground to save the views on a small hill range in the middle of nowhere in the home counties.
The economical way to get coal is open cast. Take a look at north western Germany on google map then tell me how your going to get an operation like that in the UK, literally digging up half of Yorkshire.
A new coal plant will cost £6- £10 billion and take a minimum of ten to fifteen years to build, who in their right mind would invest in such a project given the massive uncertainty and the collapsing price of wind, solar and batteries.
Coal smoke is highly toxic and carcinogenic, it’s laced with radioactive thorium and it kills around 3 million people a year. Who in the UK is going to let you build a new coal planet anywhere near where they live. Atleast with nuclear you could stick new reactors on existing sights. Almost all the old coal power sights are gone and even in sights where they still exist a new coal plant is not like a new reactor. They are massive. They would need their own dedicated probably green field sights.
Also our road and rail system is at capacity. The one attempt we have made to build a new railway to free up capacity is taking two decades and costing £100 billion. How would we move large amounts of coal from the North and west where the coal is to the South and east where the electricity is needed.
We can’t build a few houses in a greenfield without every parish council, NIMBY and environmental activists loosing their shit.
Yeah………. It was a joke Jim. 🤦♂️
Hey mate, about your “They are massive” comment… Take a look at Google and see just how Ginormous the Hinkley C site is.
It’s about the same size as Wells, the Cathedral City.
It’s also the brightest place you can see from the top of Exmoor at night and from there, you can see all along the Welsh coast, so It’s brighter than Swansea and Cardiff !
Look at Sasol in SA, it started during the sanction days but continues to this day.
Agree with all except last paragraph mate.
In my area the green spaces are vanishing, bit by bit. One year here, next year there. A look on Google Earth put on historical view to compare by years shows it.
With all these new homes and more people, where is the new Doctors surgery? Where is the new school? Where is the mitigation for hundreds more cars on that road ?
THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!
And, Nimbys like me want the countryside around us, and the wildlife.
So while your comment “a few” is ok, it’s not a few.
Drip drip water into a bath and eventually it fills.
But politicians don’t care do they, in 50 or 100 years time it’s someone else’s problem.
It’s not progress, its BLOODY DEPRESSING. Those horses have lived in that field nesr me for decades and now they’ll be gone so yet ANOTHER building site csn join the many others locally due to the GREED of a handful of people.
Agree, from a mining family. Send Millipede down first though, then all the other net zero lunatics.
Apart from the oil and gas cpmpanies who think it’s worth doing, Norway who are supplyung us and of course we do have Russian oil to look forward to.
Scotland hasn’t been a net contributor to the public finances in decades. It would take a lot of oil to change that!
#DrillBabyDrill
So Scotland runs out of jet fuel? Big deal. Burn haggis in the boilers. When they are “free”? They will invite the Chicoms in with open arms. Solve the ferry problem lol.
So closing 3 UK refineries in 2015, rather than investing in them, has turned out to be a disaster.