The boss of a major UK airport has conceded there may be travel disruptions after the end of May. Gordon Dewar, chief executive of Edinburgh Airport, warned that the risk of travel disruption will rise if jet fuel supplies continue to tighten.

He made the remarks as a new report released on Friday found that the transport hub contributes £2.7billion to the Scottish economy and supports tens of thousands of jobs. Mr Dewar said stocks of fuel look sustainable until the end of next month, but "then nobody really knows where we're going to be after that", reports The Times.

He said: "Obviously everyone's trying to work out what's going on and as it stands, with the strait still being closed, then that disruption is growing. It's not getting any less.

"I wouldn't tell people to not book or cancel at the moment. I think that would be an overreaction.

"I'm certainly trying to get to the World Cup myself and I'm not cancelling. But there is an increasing risk of disruption after the end of May."

The Biggar Economics report shows that the airport generated £2.7billion for Scotland in 2025 and supported almost 44,000 jobs.

That's a significant jump from the £1.4billion contribution and 28,000 jobs recorded in 2019. The growth is driven largely by rising passenger numbers - 16.6million in 2025 compared with 14.4million six years earlier - and the resulting boost to tourism.

Earlier this week, Lufthansa cancelled 20,000 flights from its schedule this summer with an aim to save on the rising cost of jet fuel.

It said the decision has been made for its short-haul flights, blaming the cost of jet fuel, which it said had more than doubled, as well as labour disputes with its workforce. According to the reports, most of the cuts come from closing its loss-making CityLine fleet and retiring its 27 aircraft.

Talking about the airlines, Mr Dewar said: "I don't think we'll get a situation where there's no fuel. I think what we'll get is supply chain disruption and blips in that. Airports have very little say in this. Quite often airports, as we do, own the storage on site, but we've got no control over our upstream supply.

"The airlines do deals with their fuel provider, so we're not anywhere near that."