Avgas in Europe
Availability of Avgas and the expense of it is becoming an increasing problem. The worst culprit seems to be airports using Esso. I fly a C340 based at Cannes Mandelieu where Avgas is a more resonable 1.30 euro per litre. Bordeaux is one of my frequent destinations where I suffered them having no avgas availability for the past six months, until recently restoring Avgas following protests to the Maire of Bordeaux, to find that the service is now provided extremely slowly by Esso at about 2.30 Euro per litre.The worst case I experienced is Olbia in Sardinia where Esso will swap only hard cash (not even an esso carnet is acceptable) for about 3 euro per litre. With the likely replacement of piston aircraft using regional airports, I dont really see this situation improving.