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They should consecrate the best parish priests, who are still actively parish priests.

Yes, the older priests have a ton of contacts and pure experience. Remember +Faure, around the time he was consecrated, some were reminding +W about the new Code and the age of bishops, for mandatory retirement. + Faure wrote something to the effect that : 'The N.Ordo church just wants to remove experienced knowledgeable bishops. Traditional Church didn't act that way because the older bishops had treasures of wisdom etc.'

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Another opinion:
https://www.facebook.com/100001345673649/posts/from-la-nuova-bussola-quotidianaaccording-to-our-sources-five-priests-will-be-or/25595022996792538/
Feb 4, 2026 Italian News Outlet.

From La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana:
"According to our sources, five priests will be ordained as bishops by Bishop Bernard Fellay and Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta on 1 July, one more than the bishops ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on 30 June 1988."

LNBQ is opposed to the step, but in any case, the information and links herein are valuable.

https://infovaticana.com/en/2026/03/25/in-econe-and-from-on-high-the-fsspx-announces-the-agenda-of-the-consecrations-while-leo-xiv-insists-on-ignoring-them/
Excerpt:
"...given the volume of faithful expected to attend this summons.

   The decision to advance on this calendar continues without signs of institutional dialogue with a Rome that has opted for snubs and silence, a dynamic that has characterized the first year of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate. Problems? What problems! Between embracing babies and calling for the prohibition of aerial bombings (we don’t know if land and naval ones are more legitimate), the Pope shows a special tendency to turn his back on what is contingent, perhaps in the naive hope that everything will resolve itself. 

   There is no record, for now, of any approach or formal reception on the part of Pope Leo XIV, while recent contacts have been limited to second-level interlocutions that, far from reducing tension, have introduced new elements of friction. The public accusation of schism directed against the Fraternity by Prefect Víctor Manuel Fernández has not been accompanied by concrete canonical development, leaving the qualification on a more rhetorical plane with little legal basis from the author of the infamous docuмent Mater Populi Fidelis.

   In this scenario, the FSSPX consolidates a de facto position: its own structure,..."

With the US/Israel war against Iran escalating, I doubt many will be attending these ordinations come July.

The consecrations are being held in the U.S. at the STAS in Virginia. Unless priests need to fly or travel through hot spots, or all of America, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand is set ablaze or nuked by July, I don’t see why the people one would expect to attend would stay away because of war in Israel and Iran. Why do you think so? 
Maybe some will change their plans due to the high cost of travel. The price of gas and plane fare have gone up significantly over the last few months. Nonetheless, I don’t see empty highways and airports. In addition, the SSPX has many wealthy patrons and adherents for whom cost is not likely an issue.

Do you think people will stay away because of fears for their safety when traveling or at the event itself?  It’s highly doubtful Iran has any interest in the consecrations.  I’m certain there WILL BE security in place. Any threat is more likely to come from the novus ordo, or, rather, someone hired to do harm.  Unlike in parts of Europe and the Philippines, the SSPX does not have a significant involvement in US politics. If an issue arises in the political arena, the SSPX gets lumped together with “Traditionalist Catholics.” The latest such incident being some tv or internet commentator complaining that most traditionalist Catholics aren’t Zionists. So what? Lots of Americans, including groups of Jews, are not Zionists.